Climate and Forced Displacement: Land, energy & clean water challenges of communities displaced from high-risk natural disaster and war zones in Mozambique
Organiser(s): Uacitissa Mandamule (Aix-Marseille Université/OMR), Jerry Maquenzi & João Carrilho (OMR), and Marja Spierenburg (Leiden University)
Session format: Panel
Mozambique has been cyclically affected by the occurrence of extreme weather events. Moreover, the country has also been facing military attacks in the central and northern regions, resulting in forced displacements and land tenure insecurity, and the resettlement of people forced to leave their homes to move to safer places.
This session discusses the Idai and Kenneth cyclones that hit the country in 2019, and the political and military instability in north-eastern Cabo Delgado province. The presentations focus on expectations, fears and challenges of the displaced and host communities, with regard to their rights on land and natural resources, the socio-economic destabilization of displaced communities, and impacts on agriculture production and productivity, as well as on communities coping strategies.
Marja Spierenburg is Professor in the Anthropology of Sustainable Development and Livelihoods at Leiden University (the Netherlands), and Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University South Africa. Her research focuses on the role of the private sector in nature conservation and land reforms in Southern and East Africa, and the impacts on local communities’ access to land and livelihood strategies. She has also published on the inclusion of local and indigenous knowledge in biodiversity and sustainability assessments. Marja Spierenburg is a member of the Water, Energy and Food Nexus Knowledge Action Network of Future Earth, and a member of UNESCO’s International Advisory Committee for Biosphere Reserves. For more information see: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/marja-spierenburg#tab-1
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