WATCH: In drought-prone Ethiopia, pastoralists and farmers fight to control key resources, such as land and water. David Alemu works for Mercy Corps, a global...
WATCH: In this interview, Hamsatu Allamin, now affiliated with the Nigeria Stability & Reconciliation Programme (NSRP), sheds light on the dramatic causes and...
WATCH: In this Interview, Mamadou Diakhité outlines the objectives and strategies of two land restoration initiatives in Africa and how this benefits broader...
For decades, land distribution has been a salient issue in the Philippines. In recent years, population growth and degradation of productive land has led to...
Since 2007, the Philippine authorities have increasingly been offering large swathes of land to foreign companies and governments. To clear the way for...
WATCH: In this Interview, Mamadou Diakhité (NEPAD) explains the specific role of Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Africa and how they benefit climate...
With land investment in Ethiopia intensifying due to high demand for biofuels in developed countries, local populations are being forced to leave their land and...
WATCH: This video examines the interplay of South Sudan's deteriorating environmental conditions and communal conflicts over environmental resources by...
The Omo-Turkana basin stretches from southern Ethiopia into Kenya. Temperatures in the region are rising and droughts occur with higher frequency and intensity...
More frequent droughts have exacerbated resource conflicts between Pokomo farmers and Orma herders in the Tana River Delta, Kenya. Pressures from outside...
Large scale land acquisitions by Kenyan and foreign companies in Kenya’s Tana River Delta are reducing available pastures and farmland for local communities...
Conflict between the pastoralist Sa’ad and Suleiman sub-clans of the Habar Gidir clan revolves around access to water and grazing land. The scarcity of these...
Frequent droughts in Somalia put significant pressures on pastoral livelihoods. Droughts cause herders to sell more of their livestock than they would under...
The causes of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda are manifold and controversially discussed. While acknowledging the importance of factors, such as colonial legacy...
WATCH: Golam Rasul from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) explains why the food, water and energy nexus is a very useful...
WATCH: Oliver Brown, Consultant for the United Nations Environment Program, reviews how the management of natural resources is linked to instability and...
WATCH: In this interview, Cleo Paskal, Associate Fellow at Chatham House, talks about the geostrategic, geoeconomic and geophysical dimensions of climate change...
WATCH: In this interview, Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, emphasizes the importance of development...
In the decades between the early 1970s and the beginning of the 2000s, the northern Indonesian province of Aceh was exposed to a civil conflict between the...
Ethnic and religious marginalisation caused a civil conflict in Sri Lanka, lasting about thirty years. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami exacerbated the existing...