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How to Do Note: Designing Gender Transformative Approaches in the Context of Women’s Land and Resource Rights

2025 | ReliefWeb
International Fund for Agricultural Development

Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) aim to challenge and change the underlying social norms, power dynamics,and systemic barriers perpetuating inequality between women and men. Unlike mainstream…

How Increasing Global Military Expenditure Threatens SDG 13 on Climate Action

2025 | Conflict and Environment Observatory

This paper outlines the impact of rising military expenditure on the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 13: take urgent action to combat climate change and…

Water Security in the Polycrisis: Between Negative and Positive Tipping Points

2025 | Frontiers
Jurgen Scheffran

Water security is facing multiple stressors in the emerging polycrisis of the Anthropocene, with a great acceleration challenging planetary boundaries and human livelihoods. In a…

Editorial: Climate Change, Natural Resources, and Human Security in Governance and Society: Vulnerabilites and Adaptation Strategies

2025 | Frontiers
Muhlis Madani, Simon Gray, Mergen Dyussenov, and Farida Tadjine

Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges of our time, affecting every aspect of life on Earth. Among the most significant…

Big Oil Is Fueling a Rise in Cancer in Iraq's Basra

2025 | New Lines Magazine
Margaux Seigneur and Pauline Gauer

In Aradah, a southern Iraqi town of just over 50,000 people, the end of the day arrives quietly, veiled in a haze that seems to…

Climate, Peace and Security in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

2025 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Katongo Seyuba

Local communities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) face the combined challenge of climate change and violent conflict, which exacerbates vulnerabilities, poverty, displacement…

Climate Change as a Double-Edged Sword: Exploring the Potential of Environmental Recovery to Foster Stability in Darfur, Sudan

2025 | Climate
Abdalrahman Ahmed, Brian Rotich, and Kornel Czimber

The Darfur conflict, which emerged in the early 21st century, represents a multifaceted crisis driven by socio-political and environmental factors, with resource scarcity, exacerbated by…

Gender Dynamics Within Food Systems in Displacement Contexts: Experiences from Displaced Populations in Nampula, Mozambique

2025 | Frontiers
Thea Synnestvedt, Gracsious Maviza, and Mandlenkosi Maphosa

In Nampula province, Mozambique, internally displaced and refugee communities live in settlements situated at the outskirts of Nampula city. This paper explores the intersection of…

Climate Change and Peacebuilding: Sub-Themes of an Emerging Research Agenda

2024 | International Affairs
Florian Krampe, Dylan O'Driscoll, McKenzie Johnson, Dahlia Simangan, Farah Hegazi, and Cedric de Coning

Climate change is having profound effects on global security and peacebuilding efforts. While existing research has mainly focused on the link between climate change and…

From Conflict to a Climate Future: Unraveling the Nexus between Warfare and Environmental Degradation

2025 | Sustainable Futures
Musrat Nazir, Imran Khan, Syed Afzal Moshadi Shah, Talat Islam, Kamran Azam, Imran Naseem, and Khalid Zaman

The natural environment in conflict zones is often severely impacted by warfare, with long-lasting effects on water resources and ecosystems. The ongoing conflict between Ukraine…

Water as a Driver of Conflict [Audio]

2025 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
David Michel

Blessed by several major rivers and ample rainfall, Myanmar holds vast hydropower potential. But many key hydropower sites are claimed by ethnic separatist groups in…

Are Wolves the Real Problem? Challenges Faced by Livestock Farmers Living Alongside Wolves in Northwestern Greece

2025 | Sustainability
Maria Petridou and Vassiliki Kati

Mitigating human–wolf conflict is crucial, yet conventional approaches often overlook the broader socioeconomic challenges faced by farming communities. Wolves frequently become scapegoats for deeper rooted…

Peacebuilding Perspectives and Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa (chapter in "Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa")

2025 | Palgrave Macmillan
J. Shola Omotola

This chapter proposes a peacebuilding approach to the management of herder-farmer conflicts in Africa. Specifically, the chapter reflects on the contending perspectives on peacebuilding, notably…

Pastoralism and Women’s Role in Food Security in the Ethiopian Somali Region

2025 | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Francesco Zecca and Saima Saima

Pastoralism has a significant role in food security for ages particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where elevated levels of food insecurity persist. The main aim of…

The Economic Consequences of Climate Change for Afghanistan: Losses, Projections … and Pathways to Mitigation

2025 | Afghanistan Analysts Network
Mohammad Assem Mayar

Despite contributing minimally to global emissions, Afghanistan faces escalating economic and social crises from climate change. Climate shocks, such as from floods, droughts, landslides, avalanches…

Africa Climate Security Risk Assessment

2024 | adelphi
Lukas Rüttinger, Lukas Destrijcker, Héctor Morales-Muñoz, Adrian Foong, Jakob Gomolka, Lisa Binder, Taye Abdulkadir, Titilope Akosa, Anna Belli, Matthew Brubacher, Mabaye Dia, Matthieu Guillier, Salma Kadry, Benson Kendyuio, Grascious Maviza, Chantelle

The Africa Climate Security Risk Assessment (ACRA) is the first comprehensive study of climate security across Africa. It identifies climate security pathways across the African…

Evolution of Food Insecurity in Sudan during the Ongoing Conflict

2024 | International Food Policy Research Institute
Oliver K. Kirui, Khalid Siddig, Monica Fisher, Hala Abushama, Mosab Ahmed, Mariam Raouf, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse

Sudan's food security landscape has been dramatically impacted by the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which…

Conflict, Aspirations, and Women’s Empowerment: Household Survey Evidence from Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Nigeria

2024 | Household in Conflict Network
Mulubrhan Amare, Lucia Carrillo, Katrina Kosec, and Jordan Kyle

Using original survey data from three states in rural, southwestern Nigeria, this study examines the relationship between conflict intensity at various distances and the empowerment…

Undercurrents: How Conflict, Climate Change and the Environment Intersect in Yemen

2024 | adelphi
Sinéad Barry, Beatrice Mosello, Spencer McMurray, and Lucas Destrijcker

Undercurrents examines the complex relationship between war, increasing climate-related hazards and environmental degradation in Yemen that are undermining security and driving further conflict, particularly at…

You’re Not Welcome! Violence and Support for an Open Grazing Ban Policy in Kaduna, Nigeria

2024 | Environment and Security
Daniel Tuki

This study examines the effect of victimization and religious affiliation on support for a policy banning the open grazing of livestock in the northern Nigerian…

Geopolitical Ecology: Climate Change Geopolitics and Farmer–Herder Conflicts in West Africa

2024 | Environment and Security
Cletus Famous Nwankwo

Climate change impacts various social systems and has been linked to conflicts, especially resource conflicts in dry and semi-dry lands of West Africa. Climate change…

Conflicts over Harnessing of Diamond Resources in Marange Communal Area, Eastern Zimbabwe, 2006–2015 (chapter in "Natural Resource-Based Conflicts in Rural Zimbabwe")

2024 | Taylor & Francis
Mathew Ruguwa

This chapter examines local-level conflicts over the exploitation of diamond resources in the Marange communal area of eastern Zimbabwe during the period from 2006 to…

Indigenous Peacebuilding and Environmental Restorative Justice (chapter in "Ecological Integrity and International Law: Peace, Public Health, and Global Security")

2025 | Routledge
Giada Giacomini

This chapter explores the interconnection between Indigenous peoples peacebuilding processes and environmental restorative justice. Environmental restorative justice challenges anthropological conceptualization of peacebuilding processes by considering…

Integrating Livestock Climate Adaptation and Peacebuilding: The Climate Security Sensitivity Tool for Livestock Systems (CSSTxLS)

2024 | CGIAR
Carolina Sarzana, Radhika Singh, George Meddings, Anna Belli, Brenda Chepngetich, Livia Sagliocco, Mary Mutheu, and Grazia Pacillo

Climate change presents profound challenges for livestock-dependent communities, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected regions where environmental, social, and political pressures intersect. The Climate Security Sensitivity…