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Afghanistan: Afghanistan Successfully Tests Water Flow at Major Dam

Feb 3, 2021 | Shadi Khan Saif, Anadolu Agency

Afghanistan on Wednesday successfully tested water flow at a major dam in southwestern Nimroz province bordering Iran after nearly six decades of the inception of…

Afghanistan/Iran: Iran and Afghanistan Sign Water Deal after Decades-Old Dispute

Feb 3, 2021 | Middle East Eye

Iran and Afghanistan have signed an agreement over water rights on the Helmand River, putting aside almost 50 years of disputes, IRNA reported yesterday. Meetings…

In Humanitarian Settings, Addressing Gender-Based Violence is Paramount

Feb 3, 2021 | Sara Matthews

“One hundred thirty-seven women are killed by a family member every day,” said Beth Schlachter, Executive Director of Family Planning 2020. “That’s a staggering statistic.” She…

The Impact of War on the Health of Millions of Women and Children

Feb 2, 2021 | Robby Berman, Medical News Today

“Today, more than half of the world’s women and children are living in countries experiencing active conflict. The international community cannot continue to ignore their…

Nigeria: Pastoralist-Farmer Conflict a Threat to Food Security as Inflation Spikes

Feb 2, 2021 | Funsho Idowu, Proshare Research

Nigeria could suffer a major food blowback in 2021 as the fisticuffs between pastoralists and farmers morph into regional theatres of conflict with regions of…

Ethiopia/Sudan: Rising Tension as Ethiopia and Sudan Deadlocked on Border Dispute

Feb 1, 2021 | Zecharias Zelalem, Al Jazeera

Age-old territorial claims are threatening to embroil Ethiopia and Sudan into armed conflict, as bickering over disputed strips of farmland in recent weeks has boiled…

Afghanistan: Government Promises to Implement Irrigation Projects in 'All Cities' in New Persian Year

Feb 1, 2021 | Afghanistan Times

The Urban Water Supply and Sewage company says it would implement irrigation projects in all cities by the end of the 1400 Persian Year (March 2022). Hamidullah…

Middle East: ‘Making Our Home Safe Again’: Meet the Women Who Clear Land Mines

Jan 31, 2021 | Jessie Williams, The Guardian

After decades of war, more and more women are working to remove lethal mines and IEDs from the fields and cities of their homelands. It’s…

New Guide Aims to Accelerate Forest Tenure Pathways to Gender Equality

Jan 28, 2021 | Julie Mollins, Forest News

Forest tenure reform in the global south has often failed to be gender-responsive, but there is increasing interest in taking up this challenge to activate…

Myanmar: Ethnic Groups Demand Input in Myanmar Land Reforms

Jan 28, 2021 | Nan Lwin, Irrawaddy

Development organizations and farming groups from ethnic minority areas have called on the government to postpone land reforms, saying they will crush indigenous people’s rights.…

It's Time to Shift to Locally-Led Climate Change Adaptation

Jan 27, 2021 | Birgitte Qvist-Sørensen

The past year brought unprecedented suffering from Covid-19. On top of the pandemic, climate change continued to batter already vulnerable communities, disproportionately hurting those with…

Educating Young Women is the Climate Fix No One is Talking About

Jan 27, 2021 | Vanessa Nakate

What springs to mind when someone says ‘climate change solution’? Probably wind or solar farms, maybe meatless burgers or ‘moonshot’ technologies. These are all important…

India: ‘It Isn’t Just Men Who Drive Tractors’: Women Help Lead India’s Historic Farm Protests

Jan 27, 2021 | Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times

MUMBAI, India —  Sunita Malik sat in the driver’s seat of her tractor, parked behind a police barricade at the edge of India’s capital. She and her…

Cameroon/Congo/DRC: Illegal Logging Soars during Covid-19 Pandemic in Congo Basin

Jan 27, 2021 | University of Wolverhampton’s Centre for International Development and Training

A study by the University of Wolverhampton’s Centre for International Development and Training (CIDT), has revealed that global climate goals and livelihoods of forest communities…

Myanmar: Govt Vows Action after Myanmar Villagers Demand Fertilizer Factory’s Closure over Pollution

Jan 26, 2021 | Zaw Zaw Htwe, Irrawaddy

The chief minister of Yangon Region on Tuesday promised villagers that he would assign two ministers to inspect a fertilizer factory whose closure has been…

Liberia/Sierra Leone: Disputes over Mining and Land Rights Continue to Cause Conflict across Liberia and Sierra Leone

Jan 26, 2021 | Joaquin M. Sendolo, Observer

In December 2019, conflict broke out between an international mining company and the leadership of three forest-dwelling communities of Nimba County in north eastern Liberia.…

Afghanistan: Baba Saffron! Know More about the Man Who Got Saffron to Afghanistan

Jan 26, 2021 | Mariam Alimi, Financial Express

The cultivation, development and introduction of the saffron plant in Herat as the center of saffron production in the country is undoubtedly due to the…

Registration Open for the Conference on “Environmental Governance for Peace in Colombia”

Jan 26, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

On March 18, 2021, the Conference on “Environmental Governance for Peace in Colombia” will bring together diverse perspectives to share experiences and learning on environmental…

Analyzing the Climate Security Threat: Key Actions for the US Intelligence Community

Jan 26, 2021 | Erin Sikorsky

President Joe Biden’s national security adviser has called climate change an urgent national security priority. Yet, as the person who recently led climate analysis across the…

The Third Wave of Environmental Peacebuilding

Jan 26, 2021 | Richard Matthew and Tobias Ide

For most of 2020, news, politics, policy, and research in the United States and abroad were dominated by the challenges posed by COVID-19, a rapidly…

Historic Special Issue on Environmental Peacebuilding Now Available (Open Access)

Jan 26, 2021 | International Affairs and Environmental Peacebuilding Association

International Affairs just published the first-ever special issue dedicated solely to environmental peacebuilding. After an introduction by some of the most prominent scholars in the…

Africa: How Foreign Operators Exploit Weak Protections in Africa’s Extractive Sectors

Jan 26, 2021 | Tawanda Karombo, Quartz

Former US president Donald Trump’s last minute controversial removal of sanctions against an Israeli businessman named in corruption scandals in DR Congo’s mining industry and…

Gender, Climate Change, and Security: Making the Connections

Jan 25, 2021 | Chantal de Jonge Oudraat & Michael E. Brown

Gender issues, climate change, and security problems are interconnected in complex and powerful ways. Unfortunately, some of these connections have not received enough attention from…

Ethiopia: Programme Management Officer, Climate Security Mechanism

Jan 25, 2021 | UNEP

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental…

Negotiating Peace in Iraq’s Disputed Territories: Modifying the Sinjar Agreement

Jan 24, 2021 | Shamiran Mako

On Oct. 9, the federal government in Baghdad signed the Agreement on the Restoration of Stability and Normalization of the Situation in the District of…

How We Misunderstand the Magnitude of Climate Risks – and Why That Contributes to Controversy

Jan 24, 2021 | Peter Schwartzstein

The Syrian civil war has raged for almost a decade now, and in the climate security community it can feel as if we’ve spent at…

Report Finds that Russia Securitises the Environment – but on Its Terms

Jan 24, 2021 | Nina Lesikhina and Doug Weir

International attention on environmental security has increased markedly during the last decade, especially within the UN’s Security Council, General Assembly and its Environment Assembly. Yet…

Good Reads: Rare Earths and Conflict Across Scale

Jan 24, 2021 | Stacy D. VanDeveer

Rare earths metals made a lot of news over the last decade, after most of us spent years forgetting what we once learned their names on…

Kenya: Programme Management Officer, Climate Security Mechanism

Jan 23, 2021 | UNEP

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental…

Bangladesh/Myanmar: Bangladesh to Buy Myanmar Rice, Putting aside Rohingya Crisis

Jan 23, 2021 | Ruma Paul, Reuters

Bangladesh will buy 100,000 tonnes of rice from Myanmar, putting aside a rift over the Rohingya refugee crisis as the government races to overcome a…