WATCH: Water is being used as a weapon of war on one of Syria’s deadliest battlegrounds, says the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and its local...
WATCH: Water is being used as a weapon of war on one of Syria’s deadliest battlegrounds, says the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and its local...
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 world commodity prices rose in 2007 and 2010, Egypt experienced significant food price increases, followed by strikes and protests. Beyond the food crisis...
WATCH: The international community needs to strengthen the diplomatic track of transboundary cooperation on water by investing more in training and capacity...
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: Quality, quantity, and control: These are the three dimensions of disagreement over transboundary waters. Which one offers most conflict potential?
WATCH: In this video, Prof. Mo Hamza, Director of the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP), talks about the need for regional adaptation processes.
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 analysis highlights the factors leading to global food-price shocks, explains how the impacts of food price spikes differ depending on countries and points...
Water scarcity has become an increasingly severe issue in northern China. Over-withdrawal of surface water and groundwater for industry, farmland and domestic...
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...
The Chinese central government is seeking to address the highly uneven distribution of domestic water resources through the construction of a vast water...
As a result of frequent droughts, civil war and disrupted livelihoods, pastoralist communities in Somalia increasingly turn to charcoal production as an...
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...
The Shatt al-Arab river forms part of the boundary between Iran and Iraq before flowing into the Persian Gulf. Due to its strategic importance, both countries...
Water-quality issues form an important part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Despite the efforts of the countries’ leaders to establish peace and to jointly...
Water sharing issues form an important part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The 1990s in particular witnessed extensive efforts to reach a peace agreement...