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Mainstreaming Gender in India's Climate-Smart Agriculture Policy

Jul 30, 2019 | Mikhila Menon

India needs to adopt a climate-smart agriculture policy that includes a ‘gender lens’. Since most Indian agriculture is rain-fed, the intensifying effects of climate change…

Afghanistan: Illegal Mining Reduces Lapis Lazuli Prices in Afghanistan: Study

Jul 30, 2019 | Tamim Hamid, TOLOnews

An investigation by TOLOnews reveals that lapis lazuli prices have reduced unprecedently times due to illegal mining in one of the main deposits of the…

Rangers—Unsung Heroes of Wildlife Conservation

Jul 30, 2019 | UN Environment

World Ranger Day, an initiative of the International Ranger Federation, is marked on 31 July to celebrate the work rangers do to protect the planet’s natural…

Geoff Dabelko is Professor and Associate Dean at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University. Focusing on the intersection between research…

Lost in Translation: How Building "Strong" Institutions Can Diminish Human Security in the Global South

Jul 29, 2019 | McKenzie F. Johnson

In the Global South, natural resource conflict has largely been considered a consequence of poor governance and weak political institutions. The international community’s solution? Build “green”…

Crude Holding Pools Set Ablaze in Colombia

Jul 29, 2019 | Xinhua

Four pools containing a total of 2,600 barrels of crude were set on fire in eastern Colombia's Arauca department by unknown perpetrators, oil company Ecopetrol…

Myanmar: War and Business: Kachin’s ‘Frontline’ Hydropower Dam

Jul 29, 2019 | Ye Mon and Thomas Kean, Frontier

Despite Myanmar’s dire need for power, a US$250 million hydropower plant on the front lines of the Kachin conflict has been largely idle since the…

The Sahel Uncertainty: Climate Change and Insurgency

Jul 28, 2019 | Paolo Zucconi

The Sahel is increasingly affected by underdevelopment, endemic poverty, criminality, and insurgency. Climate change has recently extrapolated these problems by making essential resources scarce. This…

Iraq: Iraq's Oil and Gas Industry Aims to Be Energy Independent [Video]

Jul 28, 2019 | Osama Bin Javaid, Al Jazeera

Years of war and instability have damaged Iraq's gas and oil infrastructure, leaving it dependent on energy imports, despite having huge reserves. Now it wants…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Could Baghdad and Erbil End Iraq's Protacted Oil Dispute?

Jul 28, 2019 | Agence France-Presse

Iraq's federal authorities and the cash-strapped Kurdish regional government (KRG) have relaunched talks over longstanding oil and budget disputes, but observers are sceptical they will…

South Sudan: South Sudan Tries to Protect Wildlife after Long Conflict

Jul 27, 2019 | Sam Mednick, Associated Press

South Sudan is trying to rebuild its six national parks and 13 game reserves, which cover more than 13% of the country’s terrain, following the…

Myanmar: At Least 25 Dead after Myanmar Land Dispute

Jul 27, 2019 | Dhaka Tribune

At least 25 people died when a land dispute in Myanmar turned violent this week, a regional MP said Friday, as details were still emerging…

Myanmar: Police Investigate after 38 Feared Dead Following Violent Myanmar Land Dispute

Jul 27, 2019 | Mizzima

At least 25 people died following violence this week, a shocked regional MP said Friday at a press conference in Magway, as details were still…

Sound Environmental Governance Key to Maximizing Potential of Horn of Africa Detente

Jul 26, 2019 | Inger Andersen

The Horn of Africa today faces increased threats to its people’s security in the form of natural disasters linked to climate change. But as old…

East African Policy Makers Advocate for Gender in Climate Policy

Jul 26, 2019 | Mary Nyasimi, Dana Elhassan and Faith Gikunda

Policy makers from nine East African countries pledge to lobby governments and policy influencers to consider gender mainstreaming in national climate change policies.

Nigeria: Insecurity: Nigeria Loses $14bn Annually to Farmers-Herders’ Clashes – Fayemi

Jul 26, 2019 | Rotimi Ojomoyela, Vanguard

Governer Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, yesterday, lamented that Nigeria loses $14 billion annually to farmer-herder clashes, saying it may affect the country’s ability to…

China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Vietnam Orders ‘Immediate Withdrawal’ of Chinese Ships as Tensions Soar

Jul 26, 2019 | Luke Hawker, Express

Hanoi has pressed ahead its work on an oil rig on the Vanguard bank, despite an increased military presence by Beijing in the Taiwan strait.…

Afghanistan: Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Launches Campaign to Stop Illegal Extraction of Mineral Resources

Jul 26, 2019 | Library of Congress

On June 19, 2019, Afghanistan’s Acting Minister of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MOMP), Narges Nehan, announced that the Ministry had begun a country-wide…

Iraqi Kurdistan's Energy Reserves: Investor's Paradise or Poisoned Chalice?

Jul 25, 2019 | Energy Reporters

When Masrour Barzani, who recently became the prime minister of semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, named long-serving Iraqi Kurdish natural resources minister Ashti Hawrami his deputy prime minister…

Climate, Conflict and Gender

Jul 25, 2019 | OSCE

Mary Robinson, founder of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Change and chair of The Elders, the group of global leaders established by Nelson Mandela,…

Liberia: WOMSUD Launches Women’s Participation in Country’s Natural Resources

Jul 25, 2019 | Hannah N. Geterminah, Observer

Women Movement for Sustainable Development (WOMUD) on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, launched the Women’s Participation in the Natural Resources Sectors Report under the title, “Strengthening…

Myanmar: Locals Demand Return of Land Taken for Coffee Project

Jul 25, 2019 | Khin Su Wai, Myanmar Times

Officials have so far ignored an appeal by farmers to return land appropriated for a coffee-planting project in Phaung Taw Sanpya village, Pyin Oo Lwin township,…

South Sudan: South Sudan Will Launch Petroleum Licensing Round, Environmental Audit

Jul 25, 2019 | Africa Oil & Power

South Sudan’s Minister of Petroleum Hon. Awow Daniel Chuang will announce South Sudan’s 2020 oil and gas licensing round at two strategic conferences this October:…

DRC: $3.7m Fund to Help End Illegal Mining in Congo

Jul 25, 2019 | Kennedy Senelwa, East African

Armed actors in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s artisanal mining have been dealt a blow with the release of $3.7 million funding by the United…

South Africa: Sweeping the Bush, Protecting the Land - The Women Quashing Poaching

Jul 25, 2019 | UNEP

The black mamba is the most venomous snake in sub-Saharan Africa. One bite can kill a person in just a few hours. It is also…

Myanmar: EITI Applied in Forestry Sector for the First Time

Jul 24, 2019 | Myat Moe Aung, Myanmar Times

Myanmar’s forestry sector was included in the Myanmar Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (MEITI) report for the first time this year. Myanmar is the second country…

South Sudan: South Sudan’s MoU with Ethiopia, Uganda for Power Transmission to Border Areas

Jul 24, 2019 | Devdiscourse

South Sudan is planning to implement bilateral agreements with Ethiopia and Uganda on the transmission of power to its border areas. The aim of agreement…

Zimbabwe: War Vets Confront Minister over Land Grab

Jul 24, 2019 | New Zimbabwe

War veterans here have called to order Provincial Affairs Minister Ezra Chadzamira for allegedly trying to remove the former freedom fighters from farms they forcibly…

Renewable Electrification in Geopolitical Contested Settings: Theoretical Insights and Practical Implications (Call for Papers for a Conference and a Special Issue)

Jul 23, 2019 | Geopolitics and Energy Research Group

The Geopolitics and Energy Research Group (GERG) will be holding an international conference on renewable electrification in geopolitical conflict settings from December 18 to 20,…

Bangladesh/Myanmar: Rohingya Refugees Regreen Deforested Land on Myanmar's Border

Jul 23, 2019 | Kaamil Ahmed, New Arab

Living off the land is natural for the Rohingya, who lived a predominantly agricultural life in Myanmar. Today, the UN estimates only around 400,000 Rohingya remain in…