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Syria: European Union Supports Integrated Agricultural Practices to Boost the Resilience of Farmers in the Syrian Arab Republic
Apr 4, 2019
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Strengthening the resilience of crisis-affected people in the Syrian Arab Republic is a goal shared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations…
Libya: The Impact of the Crisis on Agriculture - Key Findings from the 2018 Multi-Sector Needs Assessment
Apr 4, 2019
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Conflict, political instability and insecurity have fuelled the crisis in Libya, impacting individuals and families as well as the country’s economy and institutions. Resulting waves…
South Sudan: South Sudan, Where a Water Crisis is Leading to Child Kidnappings and Rape
Apr 4, 2019
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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: Afghanistan’s Most Vulnerable Women
Apr 4, 2019
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Ritu Mahendru
Kuchis, traditionally nomadic communities, are considered to be one of the poorest and most marginalized groups in Afghanistan. Over the centuries, Kuchis, whose numbers are…
Land Is Power: How Land Rights Can Enfranchise Liberia's Women
Apr 3, 2019
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Loretta Alethea Pope Kai
Liberia is in the throes of finalising one of Africa’s most progressive land rights laws but its potential will be thwarted if women are excluded. So…
Lancang-Mekong Cooperation: Blessing or Curse?
Apr 3, 2019
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Jason Thomas
The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) marked its third anniversary last week with the announcement that China’s trade with the five Mekong member countries – Cambodia, Lao,…
How to Avoid Flawed Minerals-for-Infrastructure Deals Like DR Congo and China's Sicomines Pact
Apr 3, 2019
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Adoni Maiza Larrarte and Gloria Claudio-Quiroga
It was confidently billed at the time as the "deal of the century." The Sino Congolaise des Mines (Sicomines) was the most significant Chinese investment project…
Myanmar: Nowhere to Go: Myanmar Farmers under Siege from Land Law
Apr 3, 2019
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Jacob Goldberg, Al Jazeera
Han Win Naung is accused of violating the Vacant, Fellow and Virgin (VFV) Lands Management Law which requires anyone living on land categorised as "vacant, fallow,…
Iraq: Basra Votes in Favour of Being Autonomous Region in Iraq
Apr 3, 2019
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Middle East Monitor
The Basra provincial council unanimously voted on Monday to turn the oil-rich southern governorate into an autonomous region. Head of the Basra provincial council, Sabah…
Ten Years after the Global Food Crisis, Rural Women Still Bear the Brunt of Poverty and Hunger
Apr 3, 2019
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Oxfam
The “Global Report on Food Crises”, released today by the Food Security Information Network, says that more than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced…
Yemen: Food Security and Livelihood Coordinator
Apr 2, 2019
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Solidarites International
Solidarités International is a non-profit organization working in areas of conflict and natural disasters. Its main aim is to provide quick and effective support for…
Afghanistan: Environmental and Social Management Officer
Apr 2, 2019
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UN Office of Project Services
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational arm of the United Nations, dedicated to implementing projects for the United Nations System,…
Somalia: WASH and Infrastructure Technical Coordinator
Apr 2, 2019
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ACTED
ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED provides continued support to vulnerable communities…
South Sudan: Nutrition Project Manager
Apr 2, 2019
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Medair
Medair is an international non-governmental organization NGO of humanitarian aid with a stated mission, "to relieve suffering in some of the world’s most remote and…
Timor-Leste: Consultancy for Gender and Social Inclusion Power Analysis for iWASH+
Apr 2, 2019
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Plan International
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation which works in 71 countries across the world, in Africa, the Americas, and Asia to advance…
Coalition Celebrates a Decade of Turning Veterans into Farmers
Apr 2, 2019
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Anne Ternus-Bellamy, Davis Enterprise
The Farmer Veteran Organization coalition provides small grants to veterans who are in their beginning years of farming and ranching as well as mentoring and…
Myanmar: Defending Myanmar's Remaining Environmental Treasures
Apr 2, 2019
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Scott Ezell, Diplomat
Despite being engaged in a civil war with the central government for most of the past 70 years, today the ethnic communities of Myanmar’s Karen…
Colombia: 'Defending Our Existence': Colombian Tribe Stands in Way of Oil Exploration
Apr 2, 2019
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David Hill, Guardian
Behind Pablo Maniguaje stands his village’s meeting room, where a gathering has just finished. Talk was of only one thing: proposals by the Colombian subsidiary…
Myanmar: Women Play a Crucial Role in Building Peace in Myanmar
Apr 2, 2019
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Peace Science Digest
Since the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) in 2000, the international community has devoted a great deal of attention to the…
Myanmar: The Importance of Saving Biodiversity in Karen State in 2 Interviews
Apr 2, 2019
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Scott Ezell, Diplomat
Below are excerpts from two interviews – one with a local conservation activist and the other with an academic — on conserving both biodiversity and…
From Joseph Kony to Nile Perch: Complex Links Hook Armed Conflict to Fisheries
Apr 1, 2019
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Sarah Glaser and Cullen Hendrix
Fisheries are complex systems, so numerous factors like human population growth, climate change, and changing lake chemistry come into play. But as our recent article…
Angelina Jolie Says Gender Equality Is the Secret to World Peace
Apr 1, 2019
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Erica Sanchez and Leah Rodriguez
Angelia Jolie is urging the world to support gender equality to promote world peace.
The actress and United Nations special envoy delivered a speech at the…
Afghanistan: A Key to Peace in Afghanistan? Consider Conservation, Says One Scientist
Mar 31, 2019
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Ashley Westerman, NPR
Snow leopards and Marco Polo sheep have not been on the agenda for peace talks involving the Taliban, U.S. officials and Afghan opposition figures. But…
Afghanistan: Small Pine Nuts, Great Friendship
Mar 30, 2019
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Daily Outlook Afghanistan
On March 28th, I, accompanying H.E. President Ghani, attended the launching ceremony of a pine nut processing factory in Kabul Industrial Park. The pine nuts,…
Middle East: The Middle East’s Authoritarians Have Come for Conservationists
Mar 30, 2019
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Peter Schwartzstein, Atlantic
Across the Middle East and North Africa, environmentalists are coming under attack like never before. Conservation NGOs have been closed or so suffocated that they’re…
China/Vietnam/South China Sea: China Accuses Vietnam of Illegal Fishing, Dismisses Compensation claim
Mar 29, 2019
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Mark Godfrey, Seafood Source
China has dismissed a request from the Vietnamese government for USD 130,000 (EUR 116,000) compensation for the sinking of a Vietnamese trawler in disputed waters…
Colombia/Peru: Native Protests Affect Regions of Colombia and Peru
Mar 29, 2019
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Renzo Pipoli, United Press International
Native protests over land rights in Colombia spread Friday while natives in Peru clashed with officials over pollution at a copper mine. In southwest Colombia,…
Afghanistan: First-Ever Pine Nut Processing Factory Activated in Kabul
Mar 29, 2019
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Afghanistan Times
The government of Afghanistan has inaugurated for the first time-ever a pine nut processing factory in Kabul on Thursday, where President Ashraf Ghani and over…
Researcher, Climate Change and Risk
Mar 28, 2019
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute is an international institute based in Sweden, dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.
The Stockholm International Peace…
Research Assistant, Climate Change and Risk
Mar 28, 2019
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute is an international institute based in Sweden, dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.
The Stockholm International Peace…