Climate Change, Conflict and Internal Displacement in Afghanistan: 'We Are Struggling to Survive'


Publisher: Overseas Development Institute

Author(s): Kerrie Holloway, Zaki Ullah, Dastgir Ahmadi, Elham Hakimi, and Aaftab Ullah

Date: 2022

Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Gender, Humanitarian Assistance, Land, Livelihoods, Renewable Resources

Countries: Afghanistan

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Afghanistan faces one of the world’s most complex crises. Recurring cycles of conflict, violence and natural hazard-related disasters – often exacerbated by climate change – interact to create overlapping vulnerabilities and multiple displacements. Forty years of conflict have destroyed transport, water and energy infrastructure, restricted development and increased deforestation across the country.