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CLIMATE CHANGE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY IFPRI Research Brief 18n Environmental Migrants: A Myth? Jean-François Maystadt and Valerie Mueller nvironmental migration has been the subject of lively service and manufacturing industries in the cities offer higher Edebate in recent years. The conundrum over why experts’ earnings than in the agricultural sector, they are also less global predictions of 50 million environmental refugees were susceptible to the risks of natural disasters. not met in 2010 best captures how messages from advocacy and Acknowledging the hype and inconclusiveness of earlier research can conflict with one another (Bojanowski 2011).1 In work, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) What Happened to the Climate Refugees? Atkins (2011) states, encourages more detailed evidence on observed climate impacts “[T]he first available evidence seems to show that the places on mobility, especially in Africa (Boko et al. 2007). Recent identified by the UNEP [United Nations Environment International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) research Programme] as most at risk of having climate refugees are not lets us put this debate into perspective. Microlevel evidence has only not losing people, they are actually among the fastest