Fragility, Conflict, and Migration addresses challenges to livelihood, food, and climate security faced by some of the most vulnerable populations worldwide.
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Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: Lessons from eight landscape-level cases
Multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) are the subject of increasing attention and investment in the domain of collaborative natural resource governance, yet evidence-based guidance is slim on policy and investment priorities to leverage the MSP approa
What rainfall does not tell us—Enhancing financial instruments with satellite-derived soil moisture and evaporative stress
Advanced parametric financial instruments, like weather index insurance (WII) and risk contingency credit (RCC), support disaster-risk management and reduction in the world’s most disaster-prone regions.
Four case studies: Somalia, Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen
One and a half billion people still live in fragile, conflict affected areas. People in these countries are about twice as likely to be malnourished and to die during infancy as people in other developing countries.
Building resilience to conflict through food security policies and programs: Evidence from four case studies
Food insecurity at the national and household level not only is a consequence of conflict but can also cause and drive conflicts.
Extreme weather and civil war
A growing body of evidence shows a causal relationship between extreme weather events and civil conflict incidence at the global level.
Extreme weather and civil war in Somalia: Does drought fuel conflict through livestock price shocks?
Climate change leads to more frequent and more intense droughts in Somalia. In a global context, weather shocks have been found to perpetuate poverty and fuel civil conflict.
Enhancing resilience in the horn of Africa
In 2011, the Horn of Africa faced the worst drought in 60 years, leading to emergency food insecurity levels in Kenya and Ethiopia and famine in Somalia.