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Climate-induced Migration: Stories of Struggle and Survival

Explore firsthand accounts of environmental change driving migration, revealing the urgent need for global solutions. Hear stories of families forced to move in search of survival.

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Climate-induced Migration: Stories of Struggle and Survival

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  1. Environmental Change & Migration: The Evidence Dr. Koko Warner United Nations University Institute for Environment & Human Security warner@ehs.unu.edu

  2. The EACH-FOR Project: Global fieldwork sites warner@ehs.unu.edu

  3. Rockefeller Foundation Donor Briefing 23 September 2009, New York City warner@ehs.unu.edu

  4. “The rains have changed and …we had no way to feed our families, so we fled our village. Now in the new place we migrated to, we are having the same problems. The desert is devouring our cropland and water is scarce. We will have to move again soon. We have been forced to creep, bit by bit, in search of survival and our living.”

  5. warner@ehs.unu.edu

  6. “Disasters occur so often - Flooding sometimes threatened our lives.Life was miserable. We did not know what else to do other than growing rice and fishing …but we lost everything. We had to migrate away. My children had to stop school, and I sent my girls to [Phnum Pénh] to work to help our family.”

  7. warner@ehs.unu.edu

  8. “My grandfather has worked on our lands, my father—and so do I. But times have changed…the rain is coming later now or not at all, and our crops are declining. The only solution is to go away, at least for a while. But leave my village forever? No. I was raised here and here I will stay.”

  9. Dr. Koko Warner warner@ehs.unu.edu United Nations University Institute of Environment & Human Security UN Campus, Hermann-Ehlerstr. 1053113 Bonn, Germany Thank you.

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