RUSI JournalVOLUME 166issue 1

Yemenis’ Daily Struggles Between Conflict and Climate Change

Desert landscape in front of a small village by the sea

Desert landscape in front of a small village by the sea / Courtesy of Susan Schulman


Climate change, coupled with prolonged conflict in the region, is devastating people’s livelihoods in Yemen.

Plagued by years of conflict and tragic humanitarian crisis, the people of Yemen face an increasing struggle to survive. Susan Schulman travelled to Yemen and spoke to some of the people trying to make a living in a country where human intervention and climate change have turned a once fertile land into one where water is the most precious and elusive resource of all.

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