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  • Climate Change, Disasters, and Security: Unconventional Approaches to Building Stability

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    From the Wilson Center  //  February 8, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook
    PACOM Nepal relief

    It is “not sufficient to look at history for lessons on how we should prepare for and prevent future security risks in a climate change world,” said Swathi Veeravalli, research scientist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Geospatial Research Laboratory, at the Wilson Center on January 14. Climate change and the extreme weather events it brings pose an “unprecedented” threat to human security. [Video Below]

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  • Food Security Goals Linked to Expanding Access to Family Planning, Says PRB Report

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    Eye On  //  October 7, 2015  //  By Deepshri Mathur

    Food security and proper nutrition are essential elements for the good health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. Proper nutrition increases productivity and subsequently helps lift families out of poverty. However, an estimated 800 million people are chronically malnourished across the world. Globally, more than 3 million children die each year due to illnesses caused by malnutrition.

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  • Engaging Decision-makers on Family Planning: Some Right IDEAs

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    From the Wilson Center  //  August 10, 2015  //  By Carley Chavara
    IDEA Event at Wilson

    Just a few years ago, progress on global family planning and reproductive health policy seemed to be stuck in a rut. “For 20 years, development money for health had been directed to fight HIV and poverty, and as a result, momentum, interest, and funding for family planning had dwindled,” said Susan Rich, vice president of global partnerships for the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), at the Wilson Center on July 15. “Unmet need for family planning was high all over the world, but especially in Africa.” [Video Below]

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  • New Research Links Water Security and Economic Growth

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 6, 2015  //  By Laura E. Turley
    Haiti-flooding

    While it is intuitively clear that economic growth is related to water security – understood here as both water availability and also exposure to water-related risks such as drought and floods – there has been very little empirical evidence of this relationship to date.

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  • As African Cities Grow, Rural-Urban Divides Widen Too

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    Eye On  //  July 22, 2015  //  By Josh Feng
    Table Mountain, South Africa

    In 2007, the world crossed a threshold:  for the first time in human history, the majority of people lived in urban areas. Today, Africa and Asia are the only remaining continents where the rural population outnumbers urban, but they are urbanizing at unprecedented rates. This rapid growth is a double-edged sword. While urbanization spurs economic opportunity and often increases access to infrastructure, it is also widening disparities in health and development, according to a new data sheet by the Population Reference Bureau.

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  • SAM EATON, PRI’S THE WORLD

    In Malawi, Attitudes Toward Family Planning Shift After Flooding, Hunger

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    March 18, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff
    Malawi-Eaton

    The original version of this article, by Sam Eaton, appeared on PRI’s The World.

    For two villages in southern Malawi, climate change and contraception have become intertwined. So much so, that long-held cultural assumptions are starting to change.

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  • Sam Eaton, PRI’s The World

    Severe Weather and Deforestation Create a Humanitarian Crisis in Malawi

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    March 4, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff
    malawi1

    The original version of this article, by Sam Eaton, appeared on PRI’s The World.

    You could say the people living along the banks of the Thondwe River in southern Malawi were lucky. At least they’d been warned of the flash flood in early January that would burst through an earthen dike, wash away their homes and crops, and leave more than 4,000 of them homeless.

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  • Antenatal Care as an Instrument of Change: Innovative Models for Low-Resource Settings

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  July 21, 2014  //  By Katrina Braxton & Schuyler Null
    jacaranda_health

    A roadside billboard in Malawi reads: “No woman should die while giving life.” But in many countries, death or grave injury during childbirth is an all too frequent occurrence. [Video Below]

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