Livelihoods

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War and the Environment in the Middle East: Degradation, Governance, and the Way Forward

2026 | Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Regional Competence Center for Energy and Climate Justice MENA
David R. Jalilvand and Tobias Zumbrägel

In the Middle East, armed conflict is increasingly undermining not only human security and infrastructure but also the environmental systems on which livelihoods and long-term…

Highlight: Beyond Scarcity: Understanding the Drivers of Farmer-Herder Conflicts

2026 | Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and adelphi

Conflicts between farmers and herders, more precisely between pastoral, agro-pastoral and agricultural communities, arise when land uses and livelihoods compete for the same resources. These…

Renewable Energy as Peace Infrastructure: How Decentralized Power Shapes Peacebuilding in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Africa

2026 | Stanley Center for Peace and Security
Hubert Kinkoh

Across fragile and conflict-affected settings in Africa, renewable energy can do more than deliver electricity. It can also function as peace infrastructure.

A new paper from…

The Routledge International Handbook of Gender-Based Violence Research

2025 | Routledge
Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman

This essential handbook provides researchers, educators and policymakers with the tools and critical reflections needed to navigate the complexities of GBV research, from conceptualisation and…

Food as Necropolitics: The Starvation of Palestinian Sovereignty and Stakes of Geopolitical Ecology

2026 | Political Geography
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace and Malini Ranganathan

This article theorizes the deliberate starvation of Gaza as “food-as-necropolitics” and argues that this forced famine clarifies the analytical stakes of the emerging field of…

The Gendered Impacts of the Fuel Crisis in Myanmar

2026 | United Nations

This brief examines the gendered impacts of the fuel crisis that began in Myanmar in March 2026, driven by global shortages stemming from the conflict…

Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet - Lake Chad, June 2026

2026 | Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Cedric de Coning, Andrew E. Yaw Tchie, Freedom Onuoha, Saibou Issa, and Thor Olav Iversen

The lives and livelihoods of local communities in the borderlands of the Lake Chad Basin are disrupted by both climate change and conflict, which are…

From Sovereignty to Solidarity: First Nations Women Shaping Global Futures - First Nations, Indigenous Women’s Statement

2026 | 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 | 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…

From Vulnerability to Agency: Gendered Dynamics of Food Security, Conflict, and Resilience in Eastern DRC

2026 | World Food Programme
World Food Programme

Eastern DRC continues to face protracted conflict, largescale displacement, and recurrent livelihood disruption, deepening food insecurity across the eastern provinces. According to the October 2025…

What It Takes to Eat: Conflict and Sudan’s Fragile Food System

2026 | CARE International
Nana Ndeda, Azzaa Ahmed Abdel Aziz, and Sara Karrar

In several areas of Sudan, each meal eaten by a family is made up of ingredients that have crossed one or more battlefields. In fact,…

Colonial Legacies of Agrarian Violence and Persistent Struggles to End It

2026 | 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…

Environmental Justice through Gender-Sensitive Debt-for-Nature Swaps in the Caribbean: An SDG Policy Perspective

2026 | Environmental Policy and Law
Chi Yeung Lo

In an era of climate crises and debt burdens, debt-for-nature swaps offer debt relief in exchange for environmental conservation, holding promise for Caribbean small island…

Regional Policy Coherence for the Great Green Wall Initiative: Restoring Land and Sustaining Peace: The Great Green Wall and the Climate–Peace–Security Nexus in Africa

2026 | Africa Union

Climate change poses an escalating threat to Africa’s development, peace, and security. Despite contributing minimally to global emissions, the continent faces disproportionate loss and damage…

Ethnic Land Rights as a Faustian Bargain? On the Afro-Colombian Struggle for Alternative Livelihoods and Its Limits

2026 | 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…

The Iran War’s Hidden Front: Food, Water, and Fertilizer

2026 | Council on Foreign Relations
Michael Werz

The consequences of the Iran conflict, which are already being felt in the region, will reverberate globally as an exacerbated food crisis swells. The normally…

Gender and Food Security: How Displacement Can Disrupt Traditional Roles in Agriculture-Dependent Communities

2025 | 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 | 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…

Populism, Post-truth Politics and Disaster Risk: Challenges for Governance and Marginalised Communities

2025 | DRR Dynamics
Kevin Blanchard

This policy brief explores the intersection of populism, post-truth politics, and disaster risk governance, with a focus on their impacts on marginalised groups. Populism, characterised…

Conflicts and Trends to Watch in 2026

2026 | Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Jessica Anania, Vicka Heidt, Anna Tuohey, and Jessica M. Smith

Entering 2026, the global security landscape is defined by record-high levels of armed conflict, democratic backsliding, geopolitical fragmentation, and an accelerating climate crisis—dynamics unfolding alongside…

How Authoritarians Exploit Gender

2026 | Journal of Democracy
Elin Bjarnegård and Pär Zetterberg

Authoritarian leaders increasingly engage with gender in different ways. While some subscribe to the "anti-gender" agenda and roll back gender equality achievements, others compete over…

Hidden Hunger: The Gendered Impacts of Food Security and Malnutrition on Women and Girls in the West Bank

2026 | UN Women and West Bank Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group

The West Bank Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group produced this Gender Matters Bulletin: Hidden Hunger to highlight the gender-specific impacts of the ongoing…

Towards Environmental Peacebuilding in Nepal: Understanding Violence, Addressing Conflicts, and Strengthening Governance

2026 | Centre for Social Change
Pratiksha Giri, Dipin Subedi, Prasansa Thapa, Prakash Bhattarai, and Pawan Roy

This report explores environmental peacebuilding as a strategy for converting shared environmental challenges into avenues for dialogue, cooperation, and trust among conflicting groups in Nepal.…

Integrated Assessment of Climate-Related Security Risks for Peace and Security in Blue Nile, Sudan, and Their Gender Dimensions

2026 | 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)…

Gendered Dimensions of Climate-Related Security Risks in the OSCE Area

2026 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

This report examines how climate change is exacerbating security risks across the OSCE region through gendered and intersectional pathways. Drawing on policy mapping and stakeholder…

Climate, Conflict and the Development Squeeze [Audio]

2026 | In Pursuit of Development
Florian Krampe and Dan Banik

Dan Banik and Florian Krampe explore how climate change is reshaping development and security debates -- not as a single cause of conflict, but as…

Herder-Related Violence, Labor Allocation, and the Gendered Response of Agricultural Households

2026 | Journal of Development Economics
Jeffrey R. Bloem, Amy Damon, David Francis, and Harrison Mitchell

Violent conflict between nomadic herders and settled agricultural communities in Nigeria occurs as both groups clash over the use of land and natural resources, in…

Brief: Gender-Responsive Action for Women's Food Security and Nutrition in Asia and the Pacific

2026 | 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…

Climate Justice in Action: Activism and Adaptation in Eastern Africa

2026 | Bristol University Press
Katie McQuaid, Neil J.W. Crawford, Admire Mare, and Susan Nanduddu (eds.)

Eastern Africa is one of the most climate vulnerable regions of the world, and this book is the first to highlight the direct action and…

Gender Inequality, Climate Change, and Armed Conflict: Exploring the Triple Challenges for Female Farmers in Northwestern Cameroon

2025 | Society & Natural Resources
Lotsmart Fonjong and Mbuli Clodine

Armed conflict amidst climate challenges significantly impacts on men and women in sub-Saharan Africa. In dominantly agrarian communities, climate vulnerability aggravates food insecurity, especially for…