Using survey data from regions of Cambodia, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda, and Vietnam, the study examines the relationship between sudden- and gradual-onset climate events and migration, hypothesizing that this relationship is mediated by the adaptive capacity of affected individuals.
Through a case study highlighting linked migration and small‐scale agriculture in six villages in the municipality of Somotillo, in the north‐western Nicaraguan department of Chinandega, this paper contributes to understandings both of south–south, or Central American regional, migration and of the relationship between migration and food security.
Based on mixed‐methods fieldwork in north‐western Nicaragua, we find that rather than produce remittance landscapes, or an abandonment of agriculture, subsistence migration,” or mobility to maintain small‐scale agriculture as a food security strategy, help families to persist in agriculture in a context of worsening environmental and structural conditions.
Using data drawn from the Nicaragua Living Standards and Measurement Study Survey, this study examines international livelihood migrations from Nicaragua in the years surrounding the rapid-onset Hurricane Mitch event of 1998.
This paper examines migration decision-making and individual perceptions of different types of environmental change (sudden vs. gradual environmental events) with a focus on five developing countries: Vietnam, Cambodia, Uganda, Nicaragua, and Peru.
Article summarizes the research results and impacts of a World Bank funded analysis of the communal land claims of 130 indigenous, Garífuna, and Afro-Nicaraguan communities on the Atlantic (Caribbean) Coast of Nicaragua.
Article discusses the importance of mapping to further indignous land and resource rights, but argues for the need for parallel processes to make a difference.
Article discusses the link between poverty and environmental degradation, and argues for the distinction between poverty as a state of deprivation and poverty as a relational phenomenon.
This paper analyzes the relationship between demographic dynamics and Hurricane Mitch in Central America, and extracts from this experience lessons that can help reduce vulnerability in the long run. Specifically, it centers on three aspects: How did demographic processes condition the area's vulnerability prior to Mitch? What are Mitch's consequences for population dynamics in the short and long term? What changes must be introduced in population dynamics if the effects of future natural disasters are to be mitigated?
