Blogs
Youth migration and climate resilience in northern Ghana
IWMI research draws out the positive and negative outcomes impacting society and the environment.
Social Transformation Research and Policy Advocacy
Resilience Against Climate Change – Social Transformation Research and Policy Advocacy (REACH-STR)
Gender-responsive innovations for resilient refugee and host community settlements
Gender-responsive innovations for soil rehabilitation, alternative fuel and agriculture for resilient refugee and host community settlements in East Africa
In the media
The multiple challenges from climate change, urbanization and forced displacement in Irbid Governorate, northwest Jordan
IWMI research will support evidence-based design and the implementation of the Jordanian climate adaptation policy.
Blogs
We’re taking the path less traveled: Addressing fragility, conflict and migration in Ethiopia’s Somali Region
Climate-induced displacement is rampant in Ethiopia’s Somali region. As co-lead of CGIAR’s Fragility, Conflict, and Migration Initiative IWMI is working to embed resilience-building solutions in Ethiopian refugee, internally displaced persons, and host communities.
Blogs
Moving out, moving up? Stories of rural women migrating from Thailand and Kyrgyzstan
On the 15th of October, 2022, the international community celebrates the world’s hardworking rural women whose labor helps deliver global food security.
Features
Social justice starts with water security for all
Social justice and water security are inextricably linked – for either to be achieved, the other must be considered from the very beginning.
Blogs
Climate, water, and poverty reduction – exploring the critical links
We have arrived at a crucial moment that calls upon us to incorporate smarter water management strategies into our longer-term planning.
Blogs
Water’s role in boosting nutrition, health and food security
Developing business models that governments and the private sector take seriously, so that better use of water can lead to better nutrition, health and food security.
Blogs
How to take the local, national: planning for good outcomes in Ghana
By prioritizing the perspectives of farmers on the ground, facilitating dialogue and generating data, IWMI is contributing to creating policies which more effectively support rural agricultural communities in Ghana’s Upper West Region.
Blogs
Choosing the collective: Challenging conventional ideas of women’s leadership
Lessons emerging from our research shows that collectives allow bonding and connections through identities other than gender, enabling significant change in entrenched gender-power relations.
Blogs
Can you hear me? Covid-19 and building women’s resilience in northern GhanaÂ
Covid-19 has been a major setback — but it could also help encourage new thinking on digital outreach and the necessary soft and hard infrastructure to enable such a transformation.
Blogs
Why the young aspire to leave agriculture behind
Often, migration is an adaptation strategy, and a myriad of factors shape whether a person undertakes a journey to a new city in search of opportunity.
Features
Everything you need to know about water and migration
Often, migration is a development problem being solved by people using their own agency, and this should be better reflected in policy responses at all levels.
Blogs
Rural women are reshaping gender norms in northern Ghana
Understanding how climate, migration, gender roles and Covid-19 affect women and their communities can contribute to well-informed policymaking in the Upper West Region.
Blogs
Climate change and water scarcity disrupting youth livelihoods in Ghana
Young farmers are leaving rural areas in search of better employment. Improved water access could help revitalize agricultural opportunities and curb out-migration.
Blogs
Research shows reducing local income inequality may slow rural-urban migration
Recent research conducted by IWMI, in collaboration with the IFPRI and IFAD, finds that the poorest are likelier to migrate when increases in incomes are accompanied by increases in local income inequalities.
Blogs
Gender solutions for sustainable water management in Western Nepal
IWMI study calls for investment in the social capital and capabilities of women and marginalized people.
Blogs
Countering climate change with the cascade effect
Researchers with IWMI have joined a major effort to rehabilitate "tank" (or small reservoir) cascade systems in the Dry Zone.
In the media
TheDiplomat: The Impact of Migration on Water Scarcity in Central Asia
What does male migration have to do with water scarcity in Central Asia?
In the media
AgriLinks: Cultivating the habits of efficient water management in Central Asia
How the creation of water user associations has helped empower rural people to have a direct stake in irrigation management in Tajikistan.
In the media
The hidden truth about migration: A looming farm crisis back home
In an op-ed on Euractiv, Claudia Sadoff draws attention to recent research on the communities from which migrants depart.
Press releases
Call for youth representatives
A youth agenda for sustainable agricultural transformation in an era of climate change and out-migration.
News
Can a Chinese turtle farmer help us understand the future of Asian migration?
Experts gather in Guangzhou, China, to discuss migration’s effect on home communities
News
Asia out-migration dialogue: Linking gender, water and agriculture
The Migration and Agricultural Resilience Initiative for Sustainability (MARIS) network gathers national and international experts..
News
Geographies of migration, gender and agrarian change in the Global South
Describing research on the linkages between migration and gender norms in Far West Nepal.
Blogs
Migration, water and the trajectory of rural change in South Asia
In large parts of South Asia, a majority of families pursue a dual livelihood strategy, depending on both farming and migrant wage work.
Fraser Sugden
Fraser Sugden