Livelihoods
Water as a Driver of Conflict [Audio]
2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
Does Conflict Influence the Agriculture Sector? Evidence from Myanmar’s Civil War
2024
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E3S Web of Conferences
Ali Maksum, Risky Fauzi Widodo, and Nanang Husni Mubarak
This paper aims to investigate the complex impacts of the 2021 coup in Myanmar, notably the subsequent civil war, on food security. Through qualitative analysis,…
Ground for Peace: Land Restoration for International Peace and Security
2024
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United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Beatrice Mosello, Mary Elizabeth Potts, Hector Morales Munoz, Sandor Msdar, and Oli Brown
For more than three billion people, land is core to their survival, wellbeing, and dignity. However, with between 20–40% of total global land area degraded…
Environmental Impact of the Conflict in Gaza: Preliminary Assessment of Environmental Impacts
2024
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UNEP
This Preliminary Assessment was prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It is an initial response to an official request from the State of…
Rural Poverty, Violence, and Power: Rejecting and Endorsing Gender Mainstreaming by Food Security NGOs in Armenia and Georgia
2021
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ScienceDirect
Anna Jenderedjian and Anne C. Bellows
Gender mainstreaming (GM) is a strategy to empower women and promote gender equality. Using mixed-methods, this study draws on perspectives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in…
Women, Water Resource Management, and Sustainable Development: The Turkey-North Cyprus Water Pipeline Project
2018
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Resources
Emine Eminel Sülün
Women’s role in water resource management is recognized, yet the implementation of methods and strategies to get beyond gender-based obstacles to women’s equal participation in…
Indigenous People and Human Security: The Case of Ogiek Community in Kenya
2023
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Journal of Mediterranean Basin and African Civilizations
Buket Altınçelep
One of Kenya’s indigenous people, the Ogieks have a long history of struggle and resistance to preserve their land, means of subsistence, identity, and cultural…
Bridging Generations: Pathways to a Youth-Inclusive Climate, Peace and Security Agenda
2024
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UNDP
Over 698 million young people, ages 15-35, live in fragile and conflict-affected settings. These settings are highly affected by climate change. Young people find themselves…
Environmental Peacebuilding as a Pathway to Peace with Nature
2024
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International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Janelle Sylvester and Augusto Castro Nunez
Environmental peacebuilding offers a pathway to address the complex interplay between conflict, environmental degradation, and governance by fostering sustainable natural resource management and community resilience.…
Where Are They and Who Are the Peasant Women of the South? The Double Invisibilisation of Women Working on the Land
2024
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Martina Di, Paula Lopez
Through socio-environmental and eco-territorial conflicts, we seek to investigate the conception of peasantry as a contextualized identity, with an unequivocal feminist approach. The peasant subject…
Cultivating Good Relations through Social and Community Farming
2024
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ARK
Jonny Hanson and Aoibeann Walsh
Social and community farming are similar approaches to connecting society with farming and farming with society. Their benefits are diverse and multidimensional, and can include social,…
Supporting Conflict-Resilient Food Systems in Sudan
2024
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Conflict Sensitivity Facility
New report reveals critical insights for supporting conflict-sensitive food systems in Sudan’s famine response After 18 months of conflict in Sudan, famine has been confirmed…
From Conflict to Collaboration: Co-Funding Environmental Peacebuilding in South-Central Somalia
2024
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Kheira Tarif
Somalia is experiencing significant impacts of climate change. Its climate-related vulnerabilities are exacerbated by the enduring effects of more than three decades of violent conflict…
Climate Change and Conflict in BARMM
2024
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Known as the Philippines' "food basket", Mindanao relies heavily on agriculture, with more than 48% of its workforce employed in this sector and with one-third…
Ukraine: Reframing the Narrative of Climate, Environmental Degradation and Conflict
2024
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International Rescue Committee
Clément Iraola and Beatrice Mosello
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, the war in Ukraine has been in the spotlight, largely due to its dire human toll and geopolitical…
Conflict-Induced Food Insecurity in Mali: Examining the Links between Conflict and Hunger - August 2024
2024
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Insecurity Insight
This report forms part of a series examining the links between conflict and hunger. It focuses on reported conflict incidents of food-related violence in Mali between 1 January 2019…
Environmental Pathways for Reconciliation in Yemen: Consultation Report 2024
2024
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European Institute of Peace
Tània Ferré Garcia, Laura Geres, Suaad Al-Salahi, Hisham al-Omeisy, and Albert Martinez
This report presents the results of an extensive consultation as part of EIP’s project, Environmental Pathways for Reconciliation in Yemen, which aims to support locally…