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Pathways to Resilience: Evidence on Links Between Conflict Management, Natural Resources, and Food Security
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In 2015, the NGO Mercy Corps released some surprising findings from conflict management programs in the Horn of Africa. Interventions from 2013 to 2015 focused on building community-level cooperation, strengthening institutions, and enhancing resilience. The results indicate that natural resource management can be a key governance pillar to build around and that such cooperation can strengthen household resilience to climate and food security shocks. [Video Below]
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Breaking the Fragility Trap: What Role for the World Bank?
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Last month, the World Bank’s Fragility Forum in Washington, DC, brought together some 600 participants to discuss how to advance sustainable development in the context of increasing conflicts and violence. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim opened the forum by emphasizing that we are at a critical moment.
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Joan Whelan on a New Strategy at the Office of Food for Peace: Address Conflict
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Since its inception more than 60 years ago, USAID’s Office of Food for Peace has provided critical food assistance to billions of people around the world. Yet, despite its name, the office lacked a strategy to address the effects of conflict on its work. -
Myanmar’s Democratic Deficit: Demography and the Rohingya Dilemma
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According to political demographers, who study the relationship between population dynamics and politics, two characteristics when observed together provide a rather good indication that a state is about to shed its authoritarian regime, rise to a high level of democracy, and stay there. Myanmar has both.
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Sharon Burke on How the U.S. Military Is Planning for Climate Change
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Climate change is impacting the U.S. military in two major ways, explains Sharon Burke in this week’s podcast. -
Susan Martin: Migration a Climate Adaptation Strategy, But Displacement More Dangerous
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When it comes to environmental change, “policies and laws can have a very productive contribution toward positive adaptation, or they can subvert that and constrain options,” says Jon Unruh, associate professor of human geography and international development at McGill University, in this week’s podcast. -
Jon Unruh on Darfur and the Importance of Flexible Institutions for Managing Migration Conflict
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When it comes to environmental change, “policies and laws can have a very productive contribution toward positive adaptation, or they can subvert that and constrain options,” says Jon Unruh, associate professor of human geography and international development at McGill University, in this week’s podcast. -
It’s OK to Play With Your Food: What We Learned From a Global Food Security Game
›The year is 2022. Strong El Niño and La Niña events in successive years have drastically reduced wheat yields in India and Australia and increased the range of certain pests and plant pathogens in the Western Hemisphere. Moreover, a drought across North America has reduced corn and soybean yields significantly. Global commodity prices are up 262 percent over long-term averages. These price increases are compounding other social and economic challenges, contributing to social unrest in several food-importing nations.
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