The war in Syria has now entered its 12th year, leaving a long-lasting humanitarian impact on the country as hundreds of thousands of people have been killed...
Perhaps more than any other area of climate and environmental issues, reaching a binding global commitment to forests has remained elusive. As a result, the...
Tunisia is one of the countries most exposed to climate change in the Mediterranean. Future projections show more droughts and less rainfall. This particularly...
The "UN75 Regional Dialogue for the Americas: Toward Innovation and Renewal of Global and Regional Governance" (20 March–26 April 2020) was designed to bring...
Water conflict and cooperation surrounding riparian countries among the Jordan River has been one of the most contentious issues in the Middle East, at times...
The NATO Parliamentary Assemblies’ Science and Technology Committee drafted a new report on Food and Water Security in the Middle East and North Africa. The...
There has been a surge in international migration in recent years, reaching a total of 244 million individuals in 2015. Forced displacement has also reached a...
In Tunisia, food price inflation and declining living standards - exacerbated by strong volatility in international food prices - contributed to strong...
This case study explores the ways in which soaring global food prices have interacted with other risk factors in the MENA region to create conditions ripe for...
Climate change is a decisive global challenge which, if not urgently managed, will put at risk not only the environment but also world economic prosperity...
On 12 May 2016, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) launched its annual publication “The Global...
To ensure that Paris will be a sustainable success, active engagement is required to fully implement the INDCs and to ratchet up ambition in the coming years...
As world commodity prices rose in 2007 and 2010, Egypt experienced significant food price increases, followed by strikes and protests. Beyond the food crisis...
Lebanon is highly dependent on food imports and thus has to cope with the volatility of global food prices. Whereas price-related food riots in 1987 led to...
In 2007-2008 and 2011-2012, Morocco experienced protests, which a number of the media reported as “bread riots”. However, even though Morocco is highly...
To cope with logging and illegal logging, and the obstruction of access to water sources by the owners of haciendas in Montaña Las Granadillas, located in the...
Canaima National Park is located in southeastern Venezuela, near the border with Brazil and Guyana, and inside the ancestral territory of the Pemon Indigenous...
As is true for the entire Amazon region, the Ecuadorian Amazon region has undergone different phases of colonisation. This has created land and territorial...
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