Just a Few More Days Before the Deadline for My Thesis Approaches

The focus of my thesis is climate, conflict and deforestation and examining and unpacking the completed relationship and evaluating if climate drives deforestation and thus conflict. A key topic of discussion in the relationship between climate, conflict and deforestation is the REDD+ programme. The long-term viability of REDD+ depends on altering business-as-usual activity in sectors ...

Tenure Rights and Access to Forests

I came across an interesting training manual for research about tenure rights created by CIFOR recently that I referenced in my thesis. It’s a guide created with the purpose of helping to summaries the most important aspects of forest tenure rights and resource access, because of the relevance of these issues to research on forests, ...

Portfolio Analysis Update

Since the portfolio analysis was finished at the end of May its has now come together in this new research tool on the climate security homepage. As you can see from the image above you can use the drop down menus to filters the results by choosing drivers of conflict and/or regions and/or countries to ...

What is Climate Insecurity?

Conflicts of different intensities and types are driven by multidimensional interactions between environmental, economic, social, and institutional/political factors. Climate change is increasingly recognized to exacerbate the risk of conflict emergence. Via cascading and interacting effects across socio-economic and political systems, climate-related factors impact conflict dynamics in multiple ways. Hence the concept of climate security, i.e. ...

World Environmental Day

World Environmental Day
Today June 5th is World Environment Day celebrated every year, it is the United Nations principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for protection of our natural environment globally. This years World Environment Day is being hosted by Colombia, they have put together a wide-ranging series of events featuring experts on biodiversity issues from across the globe. Videos ...

CCAFS CIAT/ Biodiversity

CCAFS CIAT/ Biodiversity
I have been placed with the CCAFS CIAT/ Biodiversity centre in Rome. I have been in contact with them via zoom meetings, skype, email and Microsoft teams, these are the main forms of communication we use to keep in contact through out the week. They are currently doing research in the area of Climate Security, ...

COVID 19 Means Completing Placement Remotely

Due to the ongoing global pandemic the decision has been made that all MScCCAFS students will carry out their internship placements remotely from their homes in order to complete the research thesis. For me this means I unfortunately won’t have the opportunity to travel to one of the partner locations for my placement, rather I ...