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Written by Nina de Ayala Parker Photo credit: United Nations Chad Climate–exacerbated conflict in the Sahel is a stark example of the need for climate security research to contribute to peacebuilding efforts in the region.   Parts of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal all make up the Sahel, a region with enormous opportunities and vast assets in terms of tourism, culture, natural resources, and energy.   However, temperatures

Peter Jay Hotez, an American pediatrician and leading international vaccine advocate, spoke out against the harsh global inequalities in the vaccine rollout of COVID-19 at the institute’s weekly virtual meeting on the 26 March 2020. Hotez, an expert in the field of global health vaccinology and neglected tropical disease control, spoke in interview with Eric Fèvre, a joint appointee at

A research study led by the International Livestock Research Institute explored the impact of a growing and changing urban environment on the wildlife and livestock that live with people in Nairobi from 2013 to 2018. This is important because shrinking of urban green spaces increases the risk of spread of zoonoses (diseases that can be spread from animals to people). Photo

The underlying technology used to track the evolution of plant viruses can help track human viruses as well.

The United Kingdom’s reliance on fruits and vegetables from climate-vulnerable tropical countries shows how local or regional impacts from climate change have global consequences.

Written by Nina de Ayala Parker  Photo credit: Marco Verch Snaking through six countries in Southeast Asia, the Mekong Delta is one of the longest rivers in the world. The link between climate and conflicts in the Southeast Asian deltas is channelled through water and food insecurity, where climate change is acting as a threat multiplier. This is particularly true in the Mekong Delta, where adverse climate events such as droughts intensify concerns over water

Between 1995-2015, nearly 60% of all maize varieties released in 18 African countries were CGIAR-related. At the end of this period, in 2015, almost half of the maize area in these countries grew CGIAR-related maize varieties. All that was accomplished through modest, maximum yearly investment of about $30 million, which showed high returns: in 2015, the aggregate yearly economic benefits

Upscaling Climate Smart and Nutrition Sensitive Beans and Finger Millet in Uganda