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    Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa

    IOPscience, 2015
    Earlier research that reports a correlational pattern between climate anomalies and violent conflict routinely refers to drought-induced agricultural shocks and adverse economic spillover effects as a key causal mechanism linking the two phenomena.
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    Heat, light and power for refugees: Saving lives, reducing costs

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2015
    Displacement of people as a result of conflict is not a new phenomenon – but today it represents an unprecedented global challenge. The gap between the needs of growing numbers of displaced people and the resources and political will to meet their needs is widening.
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    By the gun or by the bribe: Firm size, environmental governance and corruption among mining companies in Guatemala

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015
    This U4 Issue discusses the corruption risks faced by mining companies in Guatemala, with a particular focus on the risks faced by small, “junior” mining companies primarily engaged in exploration.
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    The eternal conflict: Land, peasants, and the military in Mexico

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015
    Land has always been an important site of struggle in Mexico, often bringing peasant movements and peasant communities into conflicts with the Mexican military. This CMI Insight focuses on the key conflict dimensions since the Mexican revolution (1910-1917) and up till today.
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    Afar Resilience Study

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015
    This paper has been prepared in conjunction with a project for resilience building in Afar National Regional State, Ethiopia under the auspices of the Afar Region Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Food Security Coordination Office and the Agriculture Knowledge Learning Documentation and Policy Project (AKLDP), Ethiopia which is implemented by the Feinstein International Center, Tufts Univer
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    Who owns the world's land? A global baseline of formally recognized indigenous and community land rights

    2015
    In recent years, there has been growing attention and effort towards securing the formal, legal recognition of land rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Communities and Indigenous Peoples are estimated to hold as much as 65 percent of the world’s land area under customary systems, yet many governments formally recognize their rights to only a fraction of those lands.
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    Dammed divinities: the water powers at Bujagali Falls, Uganda

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2015
    The Bujagali Hydropower Project in Uganda has been one of the most controversial dam projects in modern times. Located some eight kilometres north of Jinja and the outlet of Lake Victoria or the historic source of the White Nile (Fig. 1), it was Uganda’s second large dam when it was inaugurated in 2012.
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    Dead in the water - Ethical ownership and water management in the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global

    Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2015
    The world is facing a serious water crisis with increasing water scarcity and overuse globally. The demand for water resources is growing rapidly mainly due to industrial use, and beverage companies are one of the major industrial consumers.
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    A climate of conflicts?

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2015
    Political violence correlates strongly with climate: Civil conflict risk is seven to ten times higher in dry and tropical climates than in continental climate zones. Yet, there is little evidence that climatic variability and change are important in understanding this pattern.
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    The overlooked role of elites in African grassroots conflicts: A case study of the Dinka-Mundari-Bari conflict in Southern Sudan

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014
    Many analysts of grassroots conflicts in African emphasized one of the following factors to be the most important: ethnic divisions, competition over resources or competition between pastoralists and agriculturalists. The role of elites has been down played in such conflicts.

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