Livelihoods
Perceptions and Reality in Fisher Coexistence with Aquatic Predators in the Peruvian Amazon
2024
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Animal Conservation
Maribel Recharte, P. Lee, D. Meza, Sarah-Jane Vick, and M. Bowler
Humans and large aquatic predators compete for fish and negative interactions are widely reported as ‘human–wildlife conflicts’. When aquatic predators are perceived to damage fisheries…
Food Systems and Access to Healthy Food in an Amazonian Context
2024
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Sustainability
Renato S. Maluf, Luciene Burlandy, Rosângela P. Cintrão, Theresa Tribaldos, and Emilia Jomalinis
The article aims to identify how systemic, multi-scale dynamics influence access to adequate and healthy food and eating and how food is produced and circulated…
Unveiling the Climate-Conflict Nexus: Examining the Influence of Weather Extremes on Conflict Emergence in the Philippine Bangsamoro
2024
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Environment and Security
Laurence L. Delina, Jon Gaviola, and Homer Pagkalinawan
Extreme weather events have been closely associated with the escalation of violent conflicts. This article introduces empirical evidence that underscores the vulnerability of conflict emergence…
Liberia Forest Concession Review: Phase II
2024
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Forest Trends
Michael Jenkins
In 2014, the Government of Norway signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the Government of Liberia (GoL), promising US$150 million to support sustainable development…
Environmental Defenders in the Philippines: Ecological Grief, Loss, Trauma, Hope and Protection
2023
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Journal of Loss and Trauma
John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta
A letter published recently discussed the lack of attention to ecological grief, how Filipino youth are vulnerable such kind of grief, and proposed relevant ways…
Blood, Timber, and Plantations: The Violence of Enclosing Lives and Livelihoods in the Phillippines
2023
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Journal of Peasant Studies
Wolfram H. Dressler and Will Smith
This paper considers the relationship between authoritarian populism and extractivism by examining the violence against ‘environmental defenders’ in the Philippines. Since 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte’s…
Environmentalists' Struggles in Mexico and Their Human Cost
2022
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Voices of Mexico
Myriam Fracchia Figueiredo
Global expansion and the negative effects of the productive system on human beings and ecosystems have deepened the social crisis in Mexico. This is expressed…
Realities Beyond Reporting: Women Environmental Defenders in South Africa
2022
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Feminist Media Studies
Dalena Tran
Women environmental defenders continue to face marginalization despite their growing significance in ecological conflicts. The media’s role in empowering or further rendering them invisible is…
Business Responsibility Towards the Environment and Human Rights in Syria
2023
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Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and Syrian Legal Development Programme
Over a decade of war has ravaged Syria, leaving behind a fractured nation and crumbling infrastructure. While the humanitarian crisis dominates headlines, another threat simmers…
Spatial Patterns of Communal Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
2023
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Journal of Peace Research
Stefan Döring and Katariina Mustasilta
Communal violence is a major source of insecurity within and across borders, sparking significant displacement flows and disturbing livelihoods. The authors clarify theoretical pathways for…
Climate-Fragility Risk Brief: El Salvador
2023
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adelphi and Climate Security Expert Network
Herman Rosa Chávez, Daria Ivleva, Héctor Morales Munoz, Katarina Schulz, Beatice Mosello, and Lukas Rüttinger
El Salvador is one of the countries forming the Central American Dry Corridor. The Central American Dry Corridor faces poor distribution of irregular rain, drought,…
Tailoring the Climate Security Observatory to Livestock-Related Conflicts
2022
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CGIAR
Alex Orenstein and Theresa Liebig
The Climate Security Observatory (CSO) is a decision support tool helping policymakers and other practitioners to understand and respond to climate-related security risks. It currently…
Climate, Peace and Security Research Paper: Insights on Climate, Peace and Security
2023
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Kheira Tarif, Katongo Seyuba, Anne Funnemark, Elisabeth L. Rosvold, Asha Ali, Kyungmee Kim, Cedric de Coning, and Florian Krampe
Climate change is having alarming effects on societies and ecosystems. There is also growing evidence of its impacts on peace and conflict, which is reflected…
Post-Conflict Restitution of Customary Land: Guidelines and Trajectories of Change
2023
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World Development
Sandra F. Joireman and Rosine Tchatchoua-Djomo
Since the 1990s a body of soft international law and public policy has developed around property restitution after conflict. The Pinheiro Principles and the Voluntary…
Climate-Induced Conflicts between Rural Farmers and Cattle Herders
2023
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Ecorestoration for Sustainability
Angela Oyilieze Akanwa, Arban Banjerjee, Manoj Kumar Jhariya, L.N. Muoghalu, A.U. Okonkwo, F.I. Ikegbuna, I.C. Ezeomedo, S.O. Okeke, P.U. Igwe, V.C. Arah, C.C. Anukwonke, M.C. Obidiegwu, and E.I. Madukasi
In recent times, Nigeria has experienced increasing violence in the nation's middle belt region particularly “Benue, Plateau, Adamawa, Nasarawa, and Taraba” state seven spreading to…
Spillover Effect of Violent Conflicts on Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa
2023
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Food Policy
James Muriuki, Darren Hudson, Syed Fuad, Raymond J. March, and Donald J. Lacombe
The authors examine violent conflict's spillover effects on food insecurity in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Malawi. Using a contiguity matrix weighted on the distance between housing…
Towards Sustainable Environment in Somalia: The Role of Conflicts, Urbanization, and Globalization on Environmental Degradation and Emissions
2023
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Journal of Cleaner Production
Abdimalik Ali Warsame, Abdikafi Hassan Abdi, Amir Yahya Amir, and W.N.W. Azman-Saini
Climate change is a global phenomenon in the 21st century. Hence, achieving environmental sustainability has become a global initiative to tackle the repercussions of climate…
Gendered Violence Martying Filipina Environmental Defenders
2023
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Extractive Industries and Society
Dalena Tran
This article contributes to discussions of extractive violence by exploring how gender influences violent circumstances under which women were assassinated during environmental conflicts. Partnership with…
Women Leaders in Environmental Management
2024
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Opportunities and Challenges for Women Leaders in Environmental Management
Sreevas T.V.T.K. and Prasad Vasantrao Kulkarni
This book chapter explores the significant role of women leaders in environmental management and their impact on sustainable development. Historically, women have been underrepresented in…
How Do Interconnected Dynamics of Climate, Security and Human Mobility Interplay in Guatemala? Climate Security and Human Mobility Pathway Analysis
2024
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CGIAR
Julian Higuera-Florez, Ignacio Madurga-Lopez, Bia Carneiro, Grazia Pacillo, and Peter Läderach
Guatemala is characterized by high rates of poverty and inequality, as well as a significant incidence of violent acts and generalized social tension. Climate change…
Knowledge Co-Production around the Cormorant-Fishing Conflict Using a Joint Fact-Finding Approach
2024
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Environmental Science and Policy
Heli Saarikoski, Suvi Vikström, and Lasse Peltonen
The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) has been a persistent source of human–wildlife conflicts in the Baltic Sea area. Fishers have perceived cormorants as competitors for…
Conflict, COVID-19 Pandemic, and Food Security: Evidence from Iraq
2023
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Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
Kwadena Krah
Over 400 million undernourished people globally reside in countries with violence, conflict, and fragility (FAO, 2017; George et al. 2020). While the relationship between conflict…
The Impact of Violent Conflict on Food Supply Chains: The Case of Nigerian Maize Traders
2023
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Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
Carolina M. Vargas, Thomas Reardon, and Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie
This paper examines patterns of violent shocks and insecurity on maize traders in Nigeria. Violence has become more common in Nigeria in the past 10-15…
Implementation of Community-Based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Conflict Affected Regions: A Case of South Kordofan, Sudan
2023
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Archives of Public Health
Quraish Sserwanja, Osman Omer Adam, Eissa Hassan Mohamed, Mohammed Bashir Adam, and Linet M. Mutisya
Malnutrition is the major cause of mortality and morbidity globally with undernutrition contributing about 45% of all deaths of under five children. Besides the direct…
Crop Diversification Increased Household Welfare in Afghanistan (2011- 2017)
2023
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Research Gate
Hayatullah Ahmadzai and Oliver Morrissey
Crop diversification is a farm level strategy to increase income, improve food security, and mitigate risks attributable to shocks. We use three-waves (2011-12 to 2016-17)…
Addressing the Climate Crisis in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings - COP28 Position Paper
2023
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Cordaid
This is Cordaid’s Position Paper for COP28 Dubai, 2023. In it the authors introduce the Climate Peace Security Nexus and explain why the nexus needs…
Climate-Fragility Risk Brief: El Salvador
2023
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adelphi
Herman Rosa Chávez, Daria Ivleva, Héctor Morales Munoz, Katarina Schulz, Beatice Mosello, and Lukas Rüttinger
El Salvador is one of the countries forming the Central American Dry Corridor. The Central American Dry Corridor faces poor distribution of irregular rain, drought,…
Towards a Community of Practice for Climate Security and Environmental Peacebuilding in Mindanao
2023
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International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Leonardo Medina, Adam Savelli, Stephanie Jaquet, Mark Torres, Jayrold Arcede, Jon Hellin, and Grazia Pacillo
In combination with political, cultural, and economic factors, issues related to environmental resources and the management of land have played a crucial role in driving…
Climate Change and the Potential for Conflict in the Middle East: Emerging Threats to Security and Human Rights
2024
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The Maghreb Review
Mahmood Monshipouri and Reza Mohajer
The traditional notion of national security, primarily concerned with accumulating military power and technological prowess, is likely to lose its traction in the face of…
Climate Change and Conflict in Ghana
2023
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CDA Collaborative and Chemonics International
CDA Collaborative and Chemonics International
Ghana’s legacy of strong government institutions and peaceful transfers of power, vibrant civil society, and steady economic growth make it one of the most peaceful…