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Join USIP, in partnership with the Alliance for Peacebuilding, as we kickstart PeaceCon 2023 by bringing together senior officials, thought leaders, policymakers and practitioners from around the world to explore this year’s theme, “Beyond Fragile Ground: New Peacebuilding Architectures for Today and the Future,” as well as discuss new strategic approaches and peacebuilding frameworks to manage conflict and prevent violence. ....
Burundi, a beautiful land of thousands of collines (hills), is losing its natural capital base at an alarming rate because of climate change. The country is sculpted with lush green hillsides where 90% of the population lives and grows. It rains nine months of the year and waterfalls run freely across the country. The 2017 Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) found that the country loses annually 1.6% of its GDP to land degradation. A new joint World Bank-Government of Burundi (GoB) report Tackling Climate Change, Land Degradation and Fragility: Diagnosing Drivers of Climate and Environmental Fragility in Burundi’s Colline Landscapes - Towards a Multi-Sector Investment Plan to Scale up Climate Resilience finds that Burundi loses 5.2% of its land area every year to soil degradation since 2020. The National Development Plan aims to restore 16% of degraded lands to their former agricultural productivity. However, with climate change, this is nowhere near enough to stymie the 200% increa ....