Climate change adaptation and migration in the Global South

How can governments, donors and NGOs shape responses on the ground? Climate change is already reshaping livelihoods, land use and mobility across many parts of the Global South. While adaptation is often associated with agricultural change, local resilience and support to people staying in place, migration can also be part of how individuals, households and communities respond to environmental pressures.

This breakfast seminar brings together perspectives from research and NGO practice to explore how climate adaptation is understood, supported and governed in contexts where agriculture and mobility are closely intertwined.

The seminar will ask how climate change affects agricultural livelihoods; when mobility can become a form of adaptation; and how international and national governance frameworks, donors and NGOs can shape local possibilities for action. It will also reflect on the role of research and data in understanding climate-related mobility and supporting more grounded adaptation responses.

Jon Einar Flåtnes (external link)
Senior Researcher, CMI

Christian Neumann (external link)
Senior Programme Advisor, Strømme Foundation

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen (external link)
Senior Researcher, DIIS

Andreas Forø Tollefsen (external link)
Associate Professor, UiO

Chairs:

Cathrine Talleraas (external link)
Senior Researcher, CMI

Hanna Geschewski (external link)
Doctoral Researcher, CMI

Light breakfast is served from 08:15 — all are welcome!