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  • Agriculture’s Achilles’ Heel: Water Insecurity Is the Greatest Threat to Sustaining Global Food Production

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 5, 2020  //  By Peter McCornick & Aaron Salzberg
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    This article was originally published by CSIS’s Global Food Security Program as part of their Reset the Table series.

    Simply put, without water there is no food. Global food and nutritional security require resilient agricultural systems, which, in turn, depend on reliable and sustainable supplies of freshwater, whether from rainfall or irrigation. It is an often-neglected dependency, and one that threatens to undermine our ability to meet our future food needs and maintain the ecosystems upon which all life depends.

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  • Driven to Care: Improving Transportation to Reach Maternal Health Care in Conflict Zones

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    Dot-Mom  //  The Three Delays  //  August 20, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen

    Refugee-Woman-with-ChildHow much time passes between a laboring woman’s decision to seek care and her arrival at a health facility? Transportation for emergency obstetric care should be swift and timely, but for many refugees in the world’s conflict zones, it is not.

    An analysis of refugee maternal mortality in 10 countries found that transportation problems contributed to more maternal deaths outside of refugee camps, which tend to have better access to emergency transportation services.

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  • The Deadly “Humanitarian Ping-Pong” of Refugee Rescue at Sea

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 29, 2017  //  By Chris Psarra
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    In 2013, a boat capsized 61 miles from the Italian island of Lampedusa killing 268 refugees including 60 children. It was another horrific example of the risks taken by so many families fleeing violence in the Middle East and Africa. But recently released tapes of conversations with coast guard authorities reveal a deeper tragedy.

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  • Why East Africa’s Refugee Crises Can No Longer Be Ignored

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 20, 2016  //  By Evie Kirschke-Schwartz
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    Citing security concerns, the government of Kenya recently announced their intent to close the world’s largest refugee complex, Dadaab, after almost 25 years. [Video Below]

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  • Priyali Sur, Foreign Policy

    South Asian Environmental Migrants Pushed to Back of Line in Refugee Flood

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    November 26, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Priyali Sur, appeared on Foreign Policy.

    The dark eyes and hair of the Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and Afghans almost blend with the other migrants’. The brown skin tones are also not giveaways, but ask them where they come from, and you notice the hesitation – trying hard to blend into the crowd of Syrian migrants at Europe’s border crossings, afraid of being spotted and sent back.

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  • Catalyzing Cooperation: Disaster Diplomacy and its Potential to Short-Circuit the Climate-Conflict Link

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 15, 2015  //  By Tim Kovach
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    There is a growing chorus of voices claiming climate change will foster more conflict and violence. Books have been released on the impending age of climate wars, while media outlets dutifully report on research that purports to show how global warming will increase violence of every form, from the number of times pitchers bean batters in baseball to the rate of sexual assault.

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