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Toward Gender-responsive Forest Governance and Climate Actions in Myanmar: Insights from a Systematic Review
2026
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Women's Studies International Forum
Nyein Chan, Khin Nilar Swe, Kyaw Win. Ho Thi Phuong, and Siti Kusujiarti
This study presents the first systematic review of gender dynamics in forest and climate governance in Myanmar, aiming to synthesize existing knowledge, identify research gaps,…
Financing Sustainable Land Management in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings: From Financing Gaps to Financing Continuity
2026
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UN Convention to Combat Desertification
Land degradation, drought, declining soil productivity, and growing pressure on food systems are increasingly concentrated in some of the world’s most Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings…
From Environmental Harm to Ecological Reconciliation: Rethinking Environmental Peacebuilding through International Law
2026
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Ecology & Society
Britta Sjöstedt
The author examines how the Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (Special Jurisdiction for Peace; JEP) in Colombia has developed innovative legal approaches to address environmental harm in…
The Drought Nexus: How Food Security, Conflicts, Land and Water Are Interlinked
2026
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UN Convention to Combat Desertification
Drought is no longer a single-sector crisis. This policy brief introduces the drought nexus, showing how water scarcity, land degradation, food insecurity, energy disruption, migration,…
Why Is Women’s Access to Land So Complex in Myanmar?
2026
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Transnational Institute
Women face many obstacles in equality, work, ownership and access to land in Myanmar, rights that are essential for their everyday livelihoods. This TNI commentary…
Land Grabs: Wider, Ongoing and Expanding
2026
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Transnational Institute
Jun Borras
Land grabbing did not disappear when the headlines faded. Across the world, corporations, investors and states continue to reshape control over land and resources, often…
From Sovereignty to Solidarity: First Nations Women Shaping Global Futures - First Nations, Indigenous Women’s Statement
2026
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Women Deliver
Women Deliver Conference 2026
We, First Nations and Indigenous Women and Girls, gender diverse and intersex people from across the lands, waters, oceans, and skies of the world, affirm…
Coping with Climate Change: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Irrigation Technology Outcomes in Gujarat, India
2026
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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
Jamie M. Sommer, Trupti Jain, Biplabketan Paul, Karina Yager, Eliza White, Andrew Hargrove, and Peggy Ann Spitzer
Previous research on climate change interventions highlights that adaptation and mitigation strategies must be tailored to local contexts to effectively benefit both people and the…
Colonial Legacies of Agrarian Violence and Persistent Struggles to End It
2026
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Transnational Institute
Jun Borras and Maria Malaya de la Tierra
Assassinations, massacres, genocides and other forms of brutal violence against people and nature are deployed to suppress dissent and silence critical voices. Violence is inherent…
Integrating Islamic Peacemaking and Environmental Justice in Family Dispute Resolution [Video]
2026
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
How can culturally grounded conciliation resolve land disputes that have lasted not just decades—but generations? In this discussion, Ibrahim Hussain FCIArb, an award-winning Imam and…
Species' Habitat Change over Twenty Years in Colombia's Tropical Dry Forests
2026
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Ecological Indicators
Maria Isabel Arce-Plata, Natalia Norden, Jaime Burbano-Girón, Guy R. Larocque, M.C. Díaz, Susana Rodríguez Buriticá, Germán Corzo, and Timothée Poisot
Countries worldwide are working together under the Convention on Biological Diversity to tackle biodiversity loss. As part of this effort, the monitoring framework of the…
Ethnic Land Rights as a Faustian Bargain? On the Afro-Colombian Struggle for Alternative Livelihoods and Its Limits
2026
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Progress in Development Studies
Caroline Cornier
From the 1990s onwards, ethnic minorities in Latin America have been granted collective property rights to protect their natural livelihoods and culture from extractivism and…
Gender and Food Security: How Displacement Can Disrupt Traditional Roles in Agriculture-Dependent Communities
2025
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Migration Policy Institute
Gracsious Maviza, Joyce Takaindisa, Mandlenkosi Maphosa, and Thea Synnestvedt
When people are displaced, the structures of everyday life are disrupted. Existing gender roles and responsibilities often both become more intense and shape how individuals…
Gender and Food Security: How Displacement Can Disrupt Traditional Roles in Agriculture-Dependent Communities
2025
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The Online Journal of the Migration Policy Institute
Gracsious Maviza, Joyce Takaindisa, Mandlenkosi Maphosa, and Thea Synnestvedt
When people are displaced, the structures of everyday life are disrupted. Existing gender roles and responsibilities often both become more intense and shape how individuals…
'Still Struggling with the Commons': An Overview of Progress & Problems Securing Community Lands in Africa (Brief No. 08 of "Transforming Conservation: From Conflicts to Justice" Series)
2026
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Forest Peoples Programme
Liz Alden Wily
This Brief provides main findings from a study of all land and resource laws in force in Africa in 2025 to assess the legal status…
Integrated Assessment of Climate-Related Security Risks for Peace and Security in Blue Nile, Sudan, and Their Gender Dimensions
2026
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UNEP
Hector Morales Munoz, Lukas Rüttinger, and Yosr Khèdr
The Blue Nile State in Sudan is grappling with a severe and escalating crisis, marked by an intensifying conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)…
Brief: Gender-Responsive Action for Women's Food Security and Nutrition in Asia and the Pacific
2026
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UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific
In 2018, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women recognized the impacts of climate change in undermining food security for women, noting that…
The Power of Gender: New Generation of REDD+ Action in the LAC Region
2025
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UNDP
UNDP Climate Promise
To help disseminate how these countries are using innovative solutions to undertake this work, the UN-REDD Programme is supporting the development of this case study…
Environmental Peacebuilding in Colombia: Leveraging Synergies between Environment, Climate, Peace and Security Policies
2025
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adelphi research
Hector Morales Munoz, Nina Schmelzer, Alina Viehoff, Benjamin Pohl, and Juanita Velez
This report analyses the peacebuilding policy approaches of the Santos, Duque, and Petro administrations in Colombia and explores environmental peacebuilding good practices at the local…
Roots of Resistance: Documenting the Global Struggles of Defenders Protecting Land and Environmental Rights
2025
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Global Witness
Selma dos Santos Dealdina Mbaye is a Quilombola activist and Political Coordinator at the Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (CONAQ), an…
Resistance to Extractivism: Pin-Prick Land Grabs and ‘Failed’ Corporate Land Deals
2025
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Third World Quarterly
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Lorenza Arango, Moges Belay, Jennifer C. Franco, Sai Sam Kham, Tsegaye Moreda, Doi Ra, Itayosara R. Herrera, Chunyu Wang, and Yunan Xu
Resistance to extractivist land grabs is diverse in character and trajectory, at least those in Colombia, Ethiopia, Myanmar and China. The authors argue that this…
Revisiting the Environmental Legacies of the Vietnam War
2025
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Current History
Pamela McElwee
The 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War provides an opportunity to reflect on the conflict’s enduring scars, from severe ecological damages to…
Youth! Rise for a Greener Future
2025
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Freehand Studios and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
‘Youth! Rise for a Greener Future' (Dhalinyarooy, U Kaca Mustaqbal Doog leh) explores the links between climate change, environmental degradation, displacement and conflict in Somalia.…
Cross-Border Tourism as an Agent of Environmental Peacebuilding
2025
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Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Connor Clark, Daniel G. Pilgreen, and Dallen J. Timothy
This grounded theory study examines cross-border tourism as an agent in environmental peacebuilding by fostering cooperative resource management in borderland regions. The Big Bend Rio…
Gender-Based Violence as a Barrier to Women Rights towards Socio-environmental Sustainability
2024
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Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management
A. C. Cristina De la Parra-Guerra, J. Truyol-Padilla , C. García-Alzate, and F. Fuentes Gandara
This study provides an exhaustive analysis of the intersection between gender-based violence and environmental sustainability, focusing on the Colombian experience, particularly within the context of…
More Than Connecting the Gender Dots: Exploring a Deep Relations Approach in Environmental Peacebuilding
2025
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Alternatives
Heidi Hudson
This article proposes a paradigm shift in environmental peacebuilding beyond the peaceful distribution of resources, cooperative approaches and integrative frameworks and offers a feminist-relational approach…
Mine Clearance, Peacebuilding and Development: Interactions between Sustainable Development Goals and Infrastructure in Angola
2025
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Peacebuilding
Eka Ikpe and Sarah Njeri
In this article, the authors analyse the interaction between anti-vehicle mine (AVM) clearance and longer-term peacebuilding and development in relation to agricultural, conservation, trade, and…
A Multi-Level Spatial Assessment Framework for Identifying Land Use Conflict Zones
2025
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Land Use Policy
Danyang Wang, Mingshu Wang, Wei Zheng, Yaya Song, and Xianjin Huang
Land use conflicts (LUCs) are pivotal in understanding the complex interactions between human activities and global changes. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to analyze…
Participatory Approaches to Conflict, Climate Change and Environment: Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa
2025
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Arab Reform Initiative and Robert Bosch Stiftung
Sammy Kayed, Shivan Fazil, Hussam Hussein, Asma Khalifa, Abeer Butmeh, Abdalftah Hamed Ali, Sarine Karajerjian, Ahmad Al-wadaey, and Tobias Zumbraegel
The MENA countries have been confronting profound and far-reaching climate shocks. Experts widely agree that human-driven activity intensely shapes escalating climate stressors—including extreme weather events—dwindling…
The Fourth Year of the Opium Ban: An Update from Two of Afghanistan’s Major Poppy-Growing Areas
2025
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Afghanistan Analyst Network
Fabrizio Foschini and Jelena Bjelica
The Islamic Emirate’s ban on opium cultivation has entered its fourth year and apart from the first harvest of opium poppies in spring 2022, when…