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Afghanistan: Rehabilitated Seeds Farm Enables Farmers in Northern Afghanistan Grow Healthy Crops

Apr 9, 2019 | World Bank

Khan Mohammad oversees Khasa-Paz, a 973-jerib (194 hectares) inter-ministerial farm managed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), which produces foundation seeds, primarily…

Food Security: Vulnerability Deepens East African Food Crisis Risks

Apr 9, 2019 | Oxford Analytica

After recurrent droughts from 2015-17, improved rains in mid-2018 looked to be easing regional food insecurity. However, new warnings of poor rains are renewing concern…

Oli Brown

Senior Advisor
Chatham House
Kenya
Apr 9, 2019

Oli Brown is an Associate Fellow with the UK think tank Chatham House (also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs) as well as…

Call for Nominations for the Award for Environmental Peacebuilding in Practice

Apr 8, 2019

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association is currently seeking nominations for the Award for Environmental Peacebuilding in Practice to be presented at the First International Conference on…

Open Call for 2021 Special Issue of the Journal of Peace Research

Apr 8, 2019 | Peace Research Institute Oslo and SAGE Publications

The Journal of Peace Research is a leading international and interdisciplinary journal in peace research, published in collaboration between the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)…

Geneva Peace Week: Annual Call for Events and Speakers

Apr 8, 2019 | Geneva Peace Week

Geneva is a global hub for governance and international cooperation. It hosts 37 international organizations, a thriving community of non-governmental organizations and renowned academic and…

Better Water Security Translates into Better Food Security

Apr 8, 2019 | Kyla Peterson

“Food production is the largest consumer of water and also represents the largest unknown factor of future water use as the world’s population continues to…

Climate Change: Climate Change Poses Security Risks, According to Decades of Intelligence Reports

Apr 8, 2019 | Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections

A series of authoritative governmental and nongovernmental analyses over more than three decades lays a strong foundation for concern over climate change implications for national…

Morocco/Western Sahara: Sales of Western Sahara "Conflict Minerals" Rise but Trade Is Getting Harder for Morocco to Maintain

Apr 8, 2019 | Dominic Dudley, Forbes

Some 1.93 million tonnes of phosphates were exported from the disputed territory of Western Sahara in 2018, with an estimated value of $164m, according to…

Myanmar:143K Tons of Trafficked Timber Seized over 3 Years

Apr 8, 2019 | Kyaw Myo, Irrawaddy

More than 143,000 tons of trafficked hardwood have been seized since the current administration took office three years ago, according to the Ministry of Natural…

Afghanistan: Govt Concerned over Illegal Mining of Natural Wealth: Danesh

Apr 8, 2019 | Daily Outlook Afghanistan

Second Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danish on Sunday said Afghanistan was blessed with rich natural resources which remained untapped until now. Addressing a gathering marking…

Environmental Issues Are Ravaging the Middle East - Why Aren't Newsrooms Taking It Seriously?

Apr 7, 2019 | Bel Trew

Safe water is the most basic need for humans. It is life.  And yet water crises – which are often man made and have solutions – never get…

Climate Change: Climate Change, Conflict Exacerbate NENA Water Scarcity, Hunger

Apr 7, 2019 | OOSKAnews

The Director General of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (UNFAO) has emphasized the necessity to “scale-up” innovation, policies and investments in the water sector…

Iran/Iraq: Iran, Iraq Agree on Development of Joint Oilfields

Apr 7, 2019 | Rudaw

Iran and Iraq have taken a step towards joint development of oil fields on their shared border as the neighbours continue to strengthen their ties…

Myanmar: Burmese Farmers Barred from Planting Crops Protest for Land along Pipeline Route

Apr 7, 2019 | NewsGram

Burmese farmers barred for five years from planting crops along the route of a Chinese oil and gas line are protesting new requests by an…

South Sudan: South Sudan Will Provide a Sixth of Its Oil Output to China to Fund Road Projects

Apr 6, 2019 | Bloomberg

South Sudan has tripled the amount of oil it is providing to the Export-Import Bank of China to fund the nation’s biggest infrastructure-development project. The…

South Sudan: Is Oil Money Fuelling War in South Sudan?

Apr 6, 2019 | Al Jazeera

In February 2019, the United Nations Human Rights Council released a report describing what it believes is funding the war: the country's rich oil industry.…

From Bolivian Cocaine to Colombian Gold, Low-Level Involvement in Illicit Economies Is Often Driven by Poverty and Marginalisation

Apr 5, 2019 | Allan Gillies

Across Latin America, many impoverished communities rely on income from illicit economies for their survival, yet international development agencies and NGOs have long been reluctant…

Afghanistan: Solving the Afghanistan Food Crisis

Apr 5, 2019 | Boren Magazine

Afghanistan is facing a multi-pronged crisis. Due to the conflicts, drought and frequent natural disasters in the region, humanitarian aid is desperately needed for more than 6.3…

Myanmar: Myanmar Villagers Protest Chinese Plans for Land along Pipeline Route

Apr 5, 2019 | Radio Free Asia

Burmese farmers barred for five years from planting crops along the route of a Chinese oil and gas line are protesting new requests by an…

Colombia: ICC Asked to Formally Investigate Mass Killings of Social Leaders in Colombia

Apr 5, 2019 | Emily Hart, Colombia Reports

Human rights defenders from Colombia and Europe formally asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the ongoing killing of social leaders in the South…

Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Says 90% of Military-Acquired Land of Tamils Released

Apr 5, 2019 | Times of India

The Sri Lankan government has released about 90% of the military-acquired land belonging to the minority Tamil community held during the brutal civil war with…

Colombia: Climate-Smart Village Cauca: An Example of Agricultural and Social Transformation

Apr 5, 2019 | Lauren Sarruf Romero, Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security

The transformative process involved in implementing climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices can be well observed in the villages of Los Cerrillos and El Danubio in the…

Project Director – Commercially Viable, Conflict-Free Gold (CVCFG) Project

Apr 4, 2019 | Levin Sources

Levin Sources is a consultancy that helps its clients integrate social, environmental, and economic sustainability into their mining and minerals operations and sourcing practices through…

Project Manager, Extractives Hub Project

Apr 4, 2019 | University of Dundee School of Social Science

The University of Dundee is a public research university in Dundee, Scotland. The University of Dundee is looking for an experienced Project Manager to join…

Call for Articles - Conflict Trends 2019-2

Apr 4, 2019 | African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes

The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) is presently soliciting contributions for the second 2019 Issue of Conflict Trends (CT 2019, Issue…

South Sudan, Where a Water Crisis Is Leading to Child Kidnappings and Rape

Apr 4, 2019 | Bel Trew

For a split second it looked like the young South Sudanese woman and her baby, swaddled in a cloth-carrier on her back, were taking a…

Afghanistan: Celebrating 17 Years of Turning Minefields into Vineyards

Apr 4, 2019 | USAID

Representatives from the U.S. government, the Afghan government, and the international community commemorated Landmine Awareness Day. Deputy Minister Mohammed Qaseem Haidari and Heidi Kuhn, the…

Colombia: Indigenous Leaders Decry Colombia’s Deadly Crackdown on Land Protesters

Apr 4, 2019 | Taran Volckhausen, Mongabay

Indigenous groups in southwestern Colombia have since March 10 mobilized mass protests, known as minga, to demand a meeting with President Iván Duque over his…

Myanmar: Myanmar’s Farmers Fighting a Losing Battle

Apr 4, 2019 | ASEAN Post

When the National League of Defence (NLD) won the general elections in 2015, paving the way for Myanmar’s first non-military president in over half a…