Mentoring Saleemul Huq Memorial Research Scholars from Ecuador to Brazil, alongside years with Nigerian smallholder farmers, taught me that climate-induced loss and damage reaches far beyond economics, eroding identities, traditions and hope, and that affected communities must shape the solutions.
Reaching the Unreachable: Journeys Through Fragile Mountains, Gendered Realities, and Climate-Injustice Landscapes
The journey of Kosar Bano, a Saleemul Huq Fellow, through Gilgit, Hunza, and Ghizer shows how blocked roads, flood damage, and poorly built protection schemes deepen gendered vulnerability, and why climate and development work must count the unmeasured losses of time, dignity, and belonging.