Rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and more extreme weather events as a result of climate change pose existential challenges to Southern...
Over the past 20 years, the northern regions of Uganda, including the West Nile sub-region, have experienced an increase in average temperature and heatwaves...
The Climate Risk Profile for Eastern Africa provides forward-looking data on the climate in Eastern Africa with the goal of supporting resilience-oriented short...
This paper frames WFP’s programming in climate resilience, livelihoods and food security within the climate security discourse. It aims to offer insights into...
The Sahel faces mounting human security and development challenges due to the complex interplay of diverse and growing risks in the region, including climate...
The objective of this report is to support the UN Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS) in promoting data-driven and evidence-based approaches in the Sahel...
Kilosa, a district of the Morogoro region in Eastern Tanzania, has a history of resource-related conflicts surrounding land and forest tenure and management...
Large-scale agribusiness projects in Senegal engendered protests from villagers and pastoralists occupying the land who already face pressures from the effects...
This Climate-Fragility profile is envisaged as a first component of a Climate-Fragility Risk Assessment process – a process for actors working in contexts...
On 12 May 2016, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) launched its annual publication “The Global...
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...
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...
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...
As a result of frequent droughts, civil war and disrupted livelihoods, pastoralist communities in Somalia increasingly turn to charcoal production as an...
Livestock raiding and competition for water and pastures lead to cycles of reciprocal violence between pastoralist groups in the Kenyan-Ugandan border region...