Here is a good article from the LA Times on how the conflict in Iraq has exacerbated desertification and hinders stability through decreased ability to grow food.
A couple of weeks ago NATO held an open conference on what should be included in its new strategic concept. A wide range of experts were there, underlining both the troubling trend of securitization, in which is seems just about everything has become a threat to the Alliance and its members, and the need to take many factors into consideration to ensure both hard and soft security for NATO. These include food security, energy security, economic development and many others.
Speakers included former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, LSE prof and conflict/human security scholar Mary Kaldor, and World Food Program Executive Director Josette Sheeran, among many others.
Its good to see NATO taking advice from so many sides.
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