Livelihood Security: Climate change, conflict and migration in - UNEP

This report was produced through a technical partnership between UNEP, the International Organization for
Migration (IOM), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the UN University, and
written in collaboration with the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS). The
University of Salzburg’s Center for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS) played a key technical role in the development of the
maps.
First published in 2011 by the United Nations Environment Programme
© 2011, United Nations Environment Programme
Climate Change, Conflict and Migration in the Sahel
ISBN: 978-92-807-3198-9
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Cover image: Dust storm in Tekashuwart, Niger. © UNU/
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