How does climate exacerbate root causes of conflict in Kenya?
Climate Security Pathway Analysis
1. Resource availability and access: Climate-related impacts limit the availability of valuable resources such as water, pasture, livestock, and fish, making access to these resources highly contested. This is especially true in the country’s drought-affected arid and semi-arid lands (which cover more than 80% of the land area), where small-scale resource-related conflicts between pastoral groups are facilitated by the proliferation of small arms, as well as grievances fed by marginalization, a lack of basic services, limited employment opportunities, weak governance, and erosion of formal institutions. The resulting climate-related insecurity has the potential to spread across administrative boundaries within Kenya
as well as internationally.
