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Critical Minerals: Licensing, Tariffs, and the New Supply-Chain Risk

Jan 29, 2026 | Mark R. Ludwikowski, Kelsey Christensen, and Ashley Gifford

Critical minerals are no longer just industrial inputs. They are now strategic assets treated by governments as both economic infrastructure and national security leverage. Critical…

The Double Threat: How Conflict and Climate Change Disrupt Agricultural Input Use

Jan 29, 2026 | Rajalakshmi Nirmal

We often talk about war and weather as separate disasters. But for a farmer, they are a combined force. New research shows that conflict doesn't…

Sudan: Saudi Fund for Development and UNHCR Partner to Improve Water Access in Sudan

Jan 28, 2026
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Africa

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by HE Sultan Abdulrahman Al-Marshad, CEO of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) signed today a USD 10 million…

Myanmar: How CERF-Supported Solar Power Is Transforming Life and Dignity in Myanmar’s Dry Zone

Jan 28, 2026
UN Children's Fund and UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

UNICEF, through critical funding from the OCHA-managed UN Global Emergency Fund (CERF), helped install a fully solar-powered water system bringing clean, reliable water directly to…

Liberia: Green Guard Eco Solutions Promises Carbon Capture, Renewable Energy Production, Jobs and Regional Leadership

Jan 28, 2026 | Jaheim T. Tumu
FrontPage Africa

Green Guard Eco-Solution and the Philippines-based Alterna Verde Cooperation have projected Liberia as a regional hub for waste-to-energy innovation, climate mitigation, and sustainable livelihoods when…

Afghanistan: Lack of Snowfall Threatens Livestock and Crop Production in Afghanistan [Video]

Jan 27, 2026
Associated Press

Snow and rain has at last fallen in Afghanistan, but United Nations experts fear it's too little and too late for farmers struggling after 6…

Indonesia: The Long Struggle of Women Farmers to Halt a Zinc Mine in North Sumatra

Jan 26, 2026 | Tonggo Simangunsong
Mongabay

SILIMA PUNGGA-PUNGGA DISTRICT, Indonesia — Rainim Purba first heard the rumor in 1996. Back then, in her mid-30s, villagers were saying a zinc mining company…

Reimagining the UN’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda: Climate Resilience and Women’s Peacebuilding in Lake Chad

Jan 26, 2026 | Aïssatou Oumar Magra Avaramla
PRIF Blog

As Lake Chad’s waters shrink and droughts intensify, pastoralists and farmers clash over the remaining oases. Amid this crisis, rural women – farmers, water-keepers, and…

Water Cooperation Is Under Threat

Jan 26, 2026 | Susanne Schmeier, Melissa McCracken, and Aaron Wolf

Rivers, lakes, and aquifers ignore borders and politics, binding countries, people, and ecosystems together. This shared reality has long required cooperation, even among states divided…

India: Securing Animals' Food Sources Reduces Conflict with Humans

Jan 26, 2026 | Aditya Pandey and Sudeshna Chowdhury

In India’s north‑eastern state of Assam, growing human‑elephant conflict is revealing how fragile food security and shrinking habitats affect both people and wildlife. As forests…

Liberia: Forest Keepers in Lofa Await Conservation Benefits

Jan 26, 2026 | Tina S. Mehnpaine
FrontPage Africa

As former hunters, townsmen now serve as forest guards for a REDD+ project protecting the Wonegizi forest from logging, farming, and poaching. Partnering with the…

Afghanistan: Kabul on the Brink of Collapse: The Ground beneath Millions Is Sinking

Jan 26, 2026 | Kazim Homayoun
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Imagine a city of more than six million people where the ground beneath their feet sinks a little more each day. Kabul, the capital of…

Exposing the Rural Insecurity behind Nigeria’s Food Crisis

Jan 25, 2026 | Lekan Olayiwola

Nigeria’s food crisis is often described in the language of numbers: inflation rates, tonnage of grains lost, millions displaced, and millions hungry. These figures matter,…

Afghanistan: Saffron Industry Creates Job Opportunities for Afghan Women

Jan 24, 2026 | Xinhua
English News China

HERAT, Afghanistan, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Attired in the national dress, Latifa Nuri expressed that working in a saffron field gives her energy and brings…

The Looming Hydrological Crisis: How Water Weaponization Threatens Regional Stability and International Order

Jan 24, 2026 | Jamal Khan

Rising tensions over shared rivers in South Asia highlight how water management disputes increasingly threaten regional stability, human security, and broader international order.

In 21st-century geopolitics,…

Applications Open for IPT Specialization Course on Environmental Peacebuilding

Jan 24, 2026 | Austrian Centre for Peace

Climate change and environmental degradation affect human security in diverse and intersecting ways and can amplify existing conflicts and humanitarian crises.Forced migration, internal displacement, and…

Why Sudan Is Drawing a Red Line around the Heglig Oil Field

Jan 23, 2026 | OilPrice.com

On the Sudan civil war front, the government is trying to draw a hard boundary around a shrinking but still critical part of the oil…

Afghanistan’s Secret Gold Rush Risks Poisoning Its Waters

Jan 23, 2026 | Shahla Muram and Nadja Kunz

Afghanistan is one of the countries most affected by climate change, and the largely hidden gold rush in Badakhshan is not only endangering the lives…

Afghanistan: Long-Awaited First Snowfall Brings Relief to Water-Scarce Kabul

Jan 23, 2026 | Aysha Safi
Agence France-Presse

Snow usually comes to the Afghan capital in December, but its six million inhabitants are increasingly feeling the effects of climate change, which has brought…

Nigeria: Ranching as a Path to Ending Herder–Farmer Conflicts

Jan 23, 2026 | Humaid Rabiu Shehu
PRNigeria

For decades, the farmers–herders conflict has ranked among Nigeria’s most persistent and destabilising internal security challenges. What began as seasonal disputes over land and water…

Myanmar: AA Discovers 78 Landmines over Two Days While Clearing Mines in Maungdaw

Jan 23, 2026 | Maung Sar Ga
Narinjara News

The Arakan Army (AA) has uncovered 78 landmines within a two-day mine clearance mission in Maungdaw Township, located on the western border of Rakhine State.

The…

Mali/Mauritania/Senegal: Senegal, Mali, Mauritania Launch $7M Cross-Border Water Project for Peace

Jan 22, 2026 | Lydie Mobio
Ecofin Agency

Senegal, Mali, and Mauritania have launched a cross-border project aimed at making sustainable water management a strategic tool for cooperation, peace, and climate resilience in…

Seeing Women Behind Supply Chains: A Methodology to Strengthen Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Agrifood Systems

Jan 21, 2026 | Fernanda Soto, Marlène Elias, and Jenny Wiegel
The Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT

A new methodology helps agrifood companies meet their gender equality and inclusion commitments by better understanding diverse actors and experiences in their supply chains.

For many…

Getting Critical Minerals Certification and Due Diligence Right in the DRC-Rwanda Accord and beyond (With a Lesson from a Punk Band?)

Jan 21, 2026 | Brad Brooks-Rubin

Most current analysis focuses on the core challenge of how critical minerals can be extracted in a smooth and efficient manner, on the one hand,…