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Displaying 14 of about 14 resultsThis report aims to support the United Nations (UN) and its partners in developing climate-sensitive conflict prevention approaches. It offers: (1) a literature review covering the major scholarship on the links between climate change and violent conflict; (2) in-depth case studies on climate-security dynamics in Bangladesh and Nigeria; and (3) cross-cu…
Online Conference: When Disaster meets Conflict
Lessons on Disaster Governance and Humanitarian Action
When disasters happen in a conflict-setting, responses involve many state and non-state actors that try to reach affected populations. Who are these actors and do they work together? Who can affect communities' trust to work for their interests? How…
By Christine Chumbler
“Climate change does not drive conflict in a vacuum but contributes to conflict in already fragile contexts and in combination with a number of other critical factors.” This is one of five themes to emerge from a literature review as reported in a new study, which critically assesses how peacebuilding programming can also produce…
Measures to help Afghanistan's farmers access more water for irrigation could heighten tensions with the nation's neighbours.
By Stefanie Glinski
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan, June 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a good year, farmer and mother-of-four Zahra Tawakole can produce enough potatoes from her hectare of land in the small Afghan village of Raquel…
By Antoaneta Roussi
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has appealed for US$138 million in urgent funding — half to support affected communities and half to curb the locusts’ spread. At the same time, researchers say, better monitoring is needed to predict the insects’ movement and growth, and alternatives to syneth…
How can you observe physical distancing when you must fit three people under a mosquito net made for one person to protect yourself from malaria?
In Juba, the capital of South Sudan, nearly 30,000 people live side-by-side in a sprawling camp known as a “protection of civilian” (PoC) site. They fled their homes to escape war and the camp is their…
The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) is an international and transparent multi-source, consensus assessment of the crop growing conditions, status, and agro-climatic conditions that are likely to impact global production. The CM4EW reports on climate hazards, such as drought, flood, and extreme weather, as well as pests and crop diseases,…
South-East Asia is regularly hit by droughts. Ready for the Dry Years offers a clear analysis of this subject, assessing prospects for the decades ahead and highlighting the principal risks. Though starting slowly, droughts can have devastating cumulative impacts – striking hardest at the poor and heightening inequality, as well as degrading land and in…
The aim of this report is to explore intersectional risks that arise in South Sudan following hazards and how they intersect with disaster risk and reduction within an FCV context. To do this, the study investigated the current state of DRM in South Sudan, from the perspectives of both community members and stakeholders.
The findings reveale…
There is increasing evidence and recognition that climate variability and change is a risk multiplier that can exacerbate social, economic and environmental pressures, such as rapid urbanization, social inequality, economic shocks and environmental degradation. This is especially true for communities that are highly dependent on natural resources for t…
The Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho is a place of stark beauty; deep canyons, majestic highlands, vertiginous hillsides, alpine grasslands, sun and sky. Although no bigger than Belgium, it is a critical watershed, giving rise to the headwaters – the ‘white gold’ – that feed two of the major river systems of southern Africa, the Senqu (Orange) and uThuk…
This handbook provides an overview of natural hazards, climate change susceptibility, disaster management and response in Bangladesh. It provides an analysis of government disaster plans and policies and community preparedness.
The Disaster Management Reference Handbook Series is intended to provide decision-makers, planners, responders and disast…
By Denis Dumo
Swarms of locusts ravaging crops and grazing land across east Africa have reached South Sudan, already reeling from widespread hunger and years of civil war, the country’s agriculture minister said on Tuesday.
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Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea and Djibouti are battling the worst locust outbreak in decades, and swarms have also spread into Tan…
By Catherine-Lune Grayson
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
From Mali to Iraq, people in conflict zones are proving especially vulnerable to climate extremes.
Catherine-Lune Grayson is a policy adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and author of a new re…