Genocidal risk and climate change: Africa in the twenty-first century

Exenberger, Andreas; Pondorfer, Andreas

doi:10.1080/13642987.2014.914706

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“…Smallholder farmers in developing regions around the world, and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular, face a sort of double jeopardy, not just from climate change, but also from conflict that may arise in response to it (54)(55)(56). The climate-conflict literature assesses conflict at all scales and of all types, interpersonal, civil, political, cultural, or religiously motivated, such as dowry killing in India and witch killing in Tanzania.…”

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Smallholder Agriculture and Climate Change

Cohn

Newton

Gil

et al. 2017

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

132

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Hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people directly depend on smallholder farming systems. These people now face a changing climate and associated societal responses. We use mapping and a literature review to juxtapose the climate fate of smallholder systems with that of other agricultural systems and population groups. Limited direct evidence contrasts climate impact risk in smallholder agricultural systems versus other farming systems, but proxy evidence suggests high smallholder vulnerability. Smallholders distinctively adapt to climate shocks and stressors. Their future adaptive capacity is uncertain and conditional upon the severity of climate change and socioeconomic changes from regional development. Smallholders present a greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation paradox. They emit a small amount of CO 2 per capita and are poor, making GHG regulation unwarranted. But they produce GHGintensive food and emit disproportionate quantities of black carbon through

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Section: Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smallholder Agriculture and Climate Change

Cohn

Newton

Gil

et al. 2017

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

132

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Adaptation and Peace: Extending the Agenda for Capacity‐Building in Climate and Conflict‐Affected Communities

Bedoya Taborda,

Barnes,

Morrison

2024

WIREs Climate Change

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Climate change impacts on the social–ecological conditions that communities depend on may increase the vulnerabilities to new conflicts. Yet, the communities that will be most impacted by climate change, as noted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are already conflict‐affected communities. Here, we present the results of a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies (n = 212) in Spanish and English on the climate–conflict relationship. We found that most studies are focused on a direct relationship between climate change and violent conflict, and there has been less attention on a contextual or indirect relationship in already conflict‐affected communities. Studies on this contextual or indirect relationship suggest a climate change–conflict cycle that is negatively reinforcing, whereby violent conflict increases climate change vulnerability and feedback from climate change increases violent conflict vulnerability. While limited in number, such studies provide important insights enabling further conceptual development and empirical examination of how climate impacts interact with violent conflict, and how governance efforts can simultaneously support peacebuilding and climate change adaptation. Drawing this work together with the latest frameworks in conflict studies and adaptation, we sketch out a promising synthetic agenda, focusing on how to design policies and projects that build synergistic capacities and address cumulative and interactive impacts of climate change and violent conflict. Without such insight, efforts to treat climate and conflict in parallel may be ineffective or even counterproductive, worsening violent conflict and, in turn, further reducing the capacities of communities to build peace and resilience.

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The Inter-Relationship between Climate Change, Inequality, Poverty and Food Security in Africa: A Bibliometric Review and Content Analysis Approach

Tamasiga¹,

Onyeaka

Akinsemolu

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Despite the persistent income inequality and climate change shocks in Africa, there is limited research on their effects on food security. Hence, this study adopted a mixed-methods approach including a bibliometric analysis and content analysis to examine emerging themes in the literature on climate change, inequality and poverty, and food insecurity in Africa. The bibliometric data used were retrieved from the Scopus database for the period 2000–2022. The exercise revealed an increasing trend in the number of publications in the field, as well as strong collaboration between African countries. Specifically, most of the leading research was published by Kenyan, USA, and UK institutes. From the analysis, seven themes emerged; namely; (1) the impact of governance and policy on poverty alleviation, nutrition status, and food security; (2) the role of innovation and sustainable agriculture in mitigating climate change in developing countries; (3) integrating gender in evaluations of the impact of climate change on food security and livelihoods in Africa; (4) climate change adaptation among smallholders in building resilience for nutrition; (5) the role of institutions in assisting smallholders mitigate and adapt to climate shocks; (6) inequality, food unavailability, and agricultural production; and (7) gendered impacts of climate-smart agriculture in climate adaptation and mitigation. We also found out that there was a dearth of longitudinal studies on these seven themes. Another key element revealed by the study was the lack of policies that address the gender-differentiated impacts of climate change; hence, there is limited research on the agricultural gender productivity gap. Policies based on the tenants of socio-economic inclusion need to guide the distribution of wealth and economic participation in order to reduce inequality and improve food security and nutrition outcomes.

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Genocidal risk and climate change: Africa in the twenty-first century

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Smallholder Agriculture and Climate Change

Smallholder Agriculture and Climate Change

Adaptation and Peace: Extending the Agenda for Capacity‐Building in Climate and Conflict‐Affected Communities

The Inter-Relationship between Climate Change, Inequality, Poverty and Food Security in Africa: A Bibliometric Review and Content Analysis Approach

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