CMCC@Ca’Foscari Seminar
9 September 2025, h. 12:30 CEST | In presence and online
CMCC Foundation – Edificio Porta dell’Innovazione – Piano 2, Via della Libertà, 12 – 30175 Marghera-Venice (VE), Italy

Speaker: Domenico Bovienzo, CMCC

Climate change coupled with population growth and unsustainable economic development significantly affect the habitability and liveability of the world. Low-income and less developed countries are the most vulnerable due to their high reliance on climate-sensitive sectors and limited adaptive capacity, leaving them highly exposed to humanitarian crises. This presentation will showcase the research carried out during the PhD journey, which was aimed to investigate the connection between climate change, food insecurity and human mobility in the African continent. It is organized into three parts. The first provides background information on the topic of the research by drawing on a broad literature review aimed to explore the role of climatic hazards and their transmission channels in exacerbating past and future human mobility patterns. The second presents the results of an econometric analysis based on two household panel surveys from rural Ethiopia. It aimed to investigate agricultural productivity as a driver of food insecurity and mobility in the context of drought events. The third applies a composite indicator to evaluate how projected climate variability, together with demographic and socio-economic change, may influence future humanitarian risks across Africa. The findings highlight emerging humanitarian hotspots, as well as the determinants, heterogeneity, and pathways of climate impacts, that might be used to inform localized adaptation and mitigation strategies.