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  • Iatrogenic Fistula on the Rise as More Women Gain Access to Surgery

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    Dot-Mom  //  From Mexico City  //  October 21, 2015  //  By Sandeep Bathala
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    Obstetric fistula is a devastating childbirth injury caused by prolonged obstructed labor. It can lead to incontinence and infection, social stigmatization as others recoil in horror, and even mental illness. Between 50,000 to 100,000 women each year are affected by it – and it’s entirely preventable with proper medical attention.

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  • NASA Data Reveals Most Major Aquifers Depleting Faster Than They Recharge

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    Eye On  //  June 23, 2015  //  By Linnea Bennett
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    Researchers have been warning about future water scarcity for decades, but new data reveals a majority of the world’s largest aquifers are already running out of water.

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  • The Sahel Beyond the Headlines: Underlying Demographic, Environmental Trends Erode Resilience

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 8, 2015  //  By Carley Chavara, Theo Wilson & Schuyler Null
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    Between the Sahara to the north and savanna to the south lies the semi-arid Sahel, a region stretching from Senegal to Sudan that has experienced desperate poverty, climate change, malnutrition, and violence. While every context is different, the Sahelian countries share some common challenges, including a pattern of recurring crises and fluid borders. Boko Haram’s reign of terror in northern Nigeria and Mali’s coup have both had cross-border components. [Video Below]

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  • What’s Behind West and Central Africa’s Youthful Demographics? High Desired Family Size

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    May 11, 2015  //  By Elizabeth Leahy Madsen
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    Sub-Saharan Africa is often characterized as an outlier in terms of population dynamics and reproductive health. While women are having fewer children around the world, even prompting some places to begin worrying about aging populations, the demographic transition is proceeding more slowly in Africa. Fertility rates in North and Southern Africa have declined to around three children per woman, but the three other sub-regions of the continent – East, Central, and West Africa – retain much higher fertility, between five and six children per woman. Whether, and how quickly, fertility rates decline in these regions over the next few decades will in large part determine the peak of world population. These regions’ demographic trajectories also have important implications for health, governance, food security, economic development, land use, climate vulnerability, and even security.

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  • Efforts to Build Resilience in Sahel Focus on Food, Climate, Population Dynamics

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    Eye On  //  March 6, 2015  //  By Theo Wilson

    The Sahel – spreading from the Red Sea to the Atlantic as the Sahara Desert transitions to Sudanian savanna – is drought prone and suffers from chronic food insecurity. Yet, the region also boasts the highest fertility rates in the world, and the highest rates of marriage for young girls. This creates unique vulnerabilities that are being compounded by climate change, says ECSP’s Roger-Mark De Souza in an episode of Wilson Center NOW.

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  • What Climate Conflict Looks Like: Recent Findings and Possible Responses

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    Guest Contributor  //  December 16, 2014  //  By Jeffrey Stark
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    Climate change and conflict – what’s the relationship? In a recently completed set of field-based studies for USAID, the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability set aside “yes-or-no” questions about whether climate change causes conflict and replaced them with pragmatic and politically informed questions about how climate change is consequential for conflict in specific fragile states.

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  • Feeding Unrest: A Closer Look at the Relationship Between Food Prices and Sociopolitical Conflict

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    Guest Contributor  //  December 8, 2014  //  By Todd G. Smith
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    From the Roman poet Juvenal’s observations about bread and circuses to Marie Antoinette’s proclamation, “let them eat cake!” the link between food and political stability is well established in pop culture. In academic and policy circles, however, it’s a source of considerable debate.

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  • Necessary Partners: The Sahel Shows Why Development and Resilience Efforts Can’t Forget Men

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 19, 2014  //  By Allison Shean
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    One-third of boys in the developing world don’t face the risk of marriage and pregnancy before age 18. There are no laws preventing men from owning land or property. Men don’t bear the brunt of increasingly frequent and severe disasters. And men don’t hold fewer than 25 percent of parliamentary seats worldwide.

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