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To advance our understanding of the impacts of climate change on migration and population distribution

European Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica joins a panel discussion amongst demography experts and launches the Science-for-Policy report ‘Demography and climate change: EU in the global context’...

To address challenges associated with climate change, population growth and decline in international trade linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, determining whether national crop production can meet...

This staff working document aims at analysing the main drivers affecting food security from both the supply and demand sides. Relying on an evidence-based approach, this document provides a factual...

The world economy has largely overcome the Malthusian challenge, but there are regions such as the Sahel where this challenge remains formidable and food insecurity is exacerbated by multiple...

In this panel session organised by the KCMD at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), researchers will present and discuss the latest scientific evidence on the connection...

The direct dependence of humans on ecosystem services is by far strongest in developing regions where poverty restricts access to resources. This dependency also makes people in developing countries...

Population dynamics at the global level are slow-moving and demographic foresight to support forward-looking and proactive planning and policy-making should recognise that the global population is very likely to continue...

Major demographic transitions are occurring across all world regions, at different paces and with different implications. Important trends are already visible and others are...

This report explores the association between climate anomalies, population dynamics, conflict and organised violence in Sudan and South Sudan, at the sub-national level and for the years 1989-2015. The analyses are...