Food is inexorably linked to many areas of policy – from climate change to sustainable development to conflict to migration. The EU has become a major player in...
The ECC Factbook is an online tool presenting over 120 conflicts with an environmental dimension. This month, our Factbook team reviewed the links between food...
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...
While natural resource development can generate economic success, it can also increase the likelihood of conflict, particularly in Africa. Ongoing violence in...
A deal aimed to double agricultural production and end hunger in Africa has underestimated the impact climate change will have on the continent’s food...
A contribution from guest writer Mohammad Bundokji, EcoPeace Middle East, on the compound climate-fragility risks arising from water scarcity, energy...
Migrants and Syrian refugees have become the new 'stranded polar bear' of climate change imagery. But most such impacts will seldom be so dramatic or camera...
Global attention is understandably focused on Syrian refugees, but the migration crisis in Europe is part of a bigger trend that climate and social scientists...
WATCH: The direct causes of the civil war in Syria relate to popular discontent with the government. Yet the mishandling of a major drought in the preceding...
The ECC Factbook sheds light on the role of environmental factors in over 100 conflicts worldwide. Did climate change contribute to the Syrian civil war? Find...
Several prominent commentators have drawn connections between climate change and the rise of ISIS. US Democrat hopeful Martin O’Malley claimed that climate...
One of the last biodiversity hotspots in Europe was also backdrop to one of its last violent conflicts and now home to its newest nation states. The Prokletije...
It is neither acceptable nor possible for European countries to achieve energy security on the back of a fossil fuel strategy that will undermine democracy...
As world commodity prices rose in 2007 and 2010, Egypt experienced significant food price increases, followed by strikes and protests. Beyond the food crisis...
The European Environment Agency (EEA) published today a series of interactive maps, illustrating various climate threats European cities face as well as cities’...
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...
This case study illustrates the drivers behind Russia's grain export ban as an example for the policy dynamics of a major grain exporter and the consequences...