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    Top 10 Posts for January 2016

    February 4, 2016 By Schuyler Null
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    The good news is that some of the big land deals reported in Africa after the 2007-08 food crisis may have evaporated once companies realized the precarious land and legal frameworks they were stepping into. The bad news is that small farmers don’t have the same luxury, writes Landesa CEO Chris Jochnick in last month’s most-read story.

    Continuing coverage of the implications of the Paris climate conference led the top 10 last month, along with guest articles on the environmental damage of airstrikes in Syria, new research connecting higher nighttime temperatures with conflict via declining rice yields, and a look at environmental peacebuilding in Uganda.

    1. Missing the Big Picture in Challenging Africa’s “Land Grab” Narrative, Chris Jochnick

    2. Fire and Oil: The Collateral Environmental Damage of Airstrikes on ISIS Oil Facilities, Wim Zwijnenburg and Annica Waleij

    3. “End of the Beginning:” What Was Achieved at COP-21?, Graham Norwood

    4. After Paris, What’s the Status of “Environmental Refugees?”, James F. Hollifield and Idean Salehyan

    5. Secondary Cities: Neglected Drivers of Growing Economies [Infographic], Jessica Wiggins

    6. New Research Reveals Climate-Food-Conflict Connection Via Nighttime Temperatures, Raul Caruso and Roberto Ricciuti

    7. How Successful Were the Millennium Development Goals? A Final Report, Josh Feng

    8. Lessons From Uganda on Strengthening Women’s Voices in Environmental Governance, Blake Ratner, Clementine Burnley, and Paola Adriázola

    9. Empower, Educate, and Employ Youth to Realize the Demographic Dividend, Kathleen Mogelgaard

    10. An Empty Table? Food-Climate-Conflict Connections in Paris, Roger-Mark De Souza and Meaghan Parker

    Photo Credit: A woman in Ghana displays the certificate to her land, used with permission courtesy of Deborah Espinosa/Landesa.

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