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This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...
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This paper analyzes drivers of global change and their impacts on the current and future availability and accessibility of water resources in the Nile Basin. Drivers include changes in demography, climate, the socioeconomy, and politics, all of which are likely to increase the demand for...
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weather shocks and conflict by focusing on a pixel-level analysis for North and South Sudan at different geographical and time … scales between 1997 and 2009. Temperature anomalies are found to strongly affect the risk of conflict. In the future the risk …
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Water governance reforms are underway in many parts of the developing world. They address the principles, institutions, and legal and administrative practices through which decisions are made on the development, allocation, and conditions of use of water resources at all levels of society. As...
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has focused on diagnosing the links between natural resource competition and (violent) conflict, much less has focused on … mitigate conflict. Focusing on this latter theme, this review synthesizes evidence from a wide range of cases in Africa, Asia … propositions about the dynamics of conflict and collective action in natural resource management, and a series of recommendations …
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Forest conflict in Asia is on the rise as various stakeholders have different views about and interests in the … on how rights (or a lack thereof) instigate conflict and how collective action plays a role in conflict management, this … performed. Conflict was found to emerge in the context of the rapid economic development, where communities' deep connection to …
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conflict events using mineral price index variations by district, taking account of the mineral locations and prices, as … instrument. Strong and robust evidence, including mother fixed effects regressions comparing siblings, shows that conflict …
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and programs in conflict-prone countries, and offers insights for policymakers regarding how to do so. To understand the … relationship between conflict and food security, this report builds a new conceptual framework of food security and applies it to … resilience to conflict insofar as they are expected not only to help countries and people cope with and recover from conflict but …
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transition plan for the country. The political crisis and conflict situation in Yemen has led to a sharp decline in economic …
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