Baseline analyses of climate change effects and risks rarely incorporate a gender dimension. Consequently, mechanisms devoted to mitigation and adaptation efforts rarely integrate gender concerns into their design, implementation or related decision-making activities, including those related to funding. This oversight has important implications, particularly for poor women who require economic assistance in order to engage in adaptive and mitigative activities. For example, many women in developing countries are dependent on agriculture — particularly subsistence agriculture — and other activities in which livelihoods are inextricably tied to stable environmental conditions. Mild decreases in rainfall, rapid changes in average regional temperature or new pest vectors can have devastating effects on crop yields and the women that depend on them.