Human mobility

This study contributes to strengthening the evidence base on protracted disaster displacement to inform policy, legal and financing responses, aiming at preventing, minimising and addressing it.

This study examines unequal housing-driven displacement and well-being after Peru’s 2017 Coastal El Niño floods, finding vulnerable households faced greater risk and persistent hardship, while social ties aided coping.

IFPRI is launching new research on seed systems in conflict zones. The project in northern Ethiopia and northern Nigeria examines how climate shocks, conflict, and displacement affect seed access and local seed systems.

This study reveals that Beijing flood zone residents prioritize survival risk over travel time and prefer intelligent dynamic signals, with evacuation preferences varying by age, gender, and education.

In a new study published in Seismological Research Letters, researchers Alejandra Gubler and Matías Carvajal demonstrate that the safety of evacuation routes strongly depends on how soon after an earthquake people begin to evacuate.