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Bandiaky-Badji

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2022-05-18
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  1. “Thirdly, recognizing and recording local land rights, strengthening the capacity for developing effective land-management systems, interventions that improve women’s land rights, including legislative reform, enabling herders to access grazing resources through locally negotiated resource-management agreements — all of those are necessary. Lastly, it is imperative that stabilization efforts take into account intersecting issues related to environmental degradation, demographic factors, changes in livelihoods and weak governance; otherwise, they may aggravate and amplify conflict rather than create pathways to resolution.”

    2022-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9035 (2022) · source

  2. “Here I would like to finish by making a few recommendations as a call to action. First, stability will be achieved only if foreign and national Governments can move beyond counter- terrorism and divert a greater share of resources towards reconciliation, dialogue and tangibly improving vulnerable people’s livelihoods. Secondly, it is key to strengthen dialogue and cooperation with the G-5 on climate change and facilitate increased resource mobilization. That should be done with the collaboration of grass-roots communities and should be understood as a way to reduce conflict since, as mentioned earlier, competition over resources and environmental degradation are some of the drivers of conflict.”

    2022-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9035 (2022) · source

  3. “Another key dimension to keep in mind while talking about the conflict in the Sahel is youth, and, as we all know, on the African continent and in the Sahel young people represent 60 per cent of the population. Scarcity of resources and food insecurity due to climate change and unemployment are leading young people to be recruited by terrorist groups and to migrate to Europe. All the migration of young people to Europe that we are hearing about is because they do not have access to land, employment or resources, and all of that is due to the climate change that is taking place in the Sahel. Weaknesses in climate-change response also include inadequate climate financing, poor coordination and slow responses on climate-related interventions, as well as an overfocus on conflict and terrorism at the expense of climate issues.”

    2022-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9035 (2022) · source

  4. “A recent United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel study, carried out in 2018, on pastoralism and security found that growing competition between herders and farmers over access to water and pasture is a primary driver of an increase in violent conflicts involving pastoralists in parts of West Africa and the Sahel in recent years. Another key dimension is gender. Gender is a particularly important factor in relation to climate change; in the Sahel, women are among the most vulnerable to its impacts. For example, drought and erratic rainfall increase the workload of women and girls on family farms. Women are also heavily impacted by outbreaks of conflict on all scales.”

    2022-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9035 (2022) · source

  5. “The importance of understanding and implementing rural land tenure and rules for the management of natural resources in relation to localized conflict in the Sahel is critical because pressure for land has its greatest impact in areas held under customary tenure. While there have been legislative shifts in some countries, challenges remain in legal weaknesses, conflicts of customary law and statutory law, and poor implementation of legal reform. For instance, the incomplete institutionalization of the commonly accepted rules on rural land tenure and the management of natural resources have allowed many conflicts over natural resources to continue. In the Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, increasing land pressure and insecure land tenure are compromising agropastoral production systems as they seek to adapt to climatic variability.”

    2022-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9035 (2022) · source

  6. “While it is understood that conflict is driven by the wider historical, socioeconomic and political context, including internal factors related to demographic, economic, social, governance and environmental factors, trying to understand the conflict dynamics in vulnerable countries in the Sahel without considering the impact of climate change could result in an incomplete and flawed analysis. Climate change affects the availability, distribution and quality of natural resources, which can escalate conflicts over those resources. Land tenure dynamics need to be a central frame of analysis on conflict in the Sahel.”

    2022-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9035 (2022) · source

  7. “Some of the impacts felt across the region include extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods, erratic rainfall and rising temperatures, the depletion of natural resources, food and water insecurity, increasing disease outbreaks, displacement and migration. For example, torrential rains affected more than half a million people in the Niger in 2020, and up to 10 million people are facing starvation owing to drought. Climate shocks and chronic food crises in the Sahel region also continue to weaken women’s coping mechanisms and their economic resiliency capacities as they limit access to income and assets.”

    2022-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9035 (2022) · source

  8. “Ms. Bandiaky-Badji: Today I would like to talk about the links between climate change and the conflict in the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel) countries. In that connection, I have three main questions. First, what impacts is climate change having on the G-5 Sahel countries? Secondly, how is climate change linked to conflict and how is it exacerbating conflict in the Sahel? And thirdly, why is it important to take climate change into account in developing peacebuilding strategies in the Sahel? I would like to end by issuing a call to action for climate justice and for sustainable peace in the G-5 Sahel countries. Research has shown that the G-5 Sahel countries are among the 20 per cent most vulnerable to climate-change risks.”

    2022-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9035 (2022) · source