Climate Change and Inter-Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria

Folami, Olakunle Michael; Folami, Adejoke Olubimpe

doi:10.1080/10402659.2013.759783

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“…Social cohesion and integration become compromised. Elsewhere in the African region, climate change has led to drought, landslides, desertification, pollution, sand storms, disease, hunger, and unusual weather (Folami and Folami 2013). In Northern Kenya, desertification has escalated with increase in sandstorms.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Building Capacity to Cope with Climate Change-Induced Resource-Based Conflicts Among Grassroots Communities in Kenya

Maguta¹,

Nzengya²,

Mutisya³

et al. 2020

African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

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Kenya is among the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change-related stresses and extreme events. According to FAO, over 75% of the country is classified as arid and semiarid with rainfall availability and amounts quite unevenly spread across the different parts of the country. The country has very skewed distribution of water sources with the western area being relatively well endowed with abundant water resources. The exponential growth in the country's population over the years, together with rapid environmental degradation and

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Section: The Relative Deprivation Theory Developed By Samuel Stouffermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The impacts of climate change are particularly more profound in communities where people rely on their immediate environment for basic needs. In Nigeria, for instance, Folami and Folami (2013) have noted that climate change has resulted into extreme droughts triggering severe water scarcity.…”

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Building Capacity to Cope with Climate Change-Induced Resource-Based Conflicts Among Grassroots Communities in Kenya

Maguta¹,

Nzengya²,

Mutisya³

et al. 2020

African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

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“…These include the collapse of the traditional burti system of cattle routes, the declining importance of dairy production, migration and disease, and the intensification of agriculture in riparian areas known as fadama cultivation. Since then, many recent studies (including Obioha, 2008;Olabode & Ajibade, 2010;Odoh & Chigozie, 2012;Folami & Folami, 2013;Abugu & Onuba, 2015;Amusan et al, 2017;Tanimu & Akujuru, 2018) have implicated the changing global climate in the herdsmen-farmers conflicts. Table 1 shows a summary of these studies highlighting their unique contexts and main findings.…”

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“…Conflicts between Fulani herdsmen and sedentary farmers scale up the sources of tension for the Nigerian states in recent times (Folami & Folami, 2013). These conflicts have caused a great deal of loss to human lives, and have resulted in destruction of meaningful livelihood and disruption of mainstream economic activities.…”

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Geospatial Technology Potentials in Reawakening the Consciousness of Soil Distribution in Nigeria’s North-Central Region and Mediating the Herdsmen-Farmers Conflicts

Nkwunonwo¹,

Okeke²,

Chiemelu³

et al. 2019

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The pervasive herdsmen-farmers conflicts in the north-central region of Nigeria have changed the narrative of Nigeria's enduring ethnic crises to ideologies, which are in-controvertibly sinister. The consequences of this tension, which has defied possible military responses, political, religious and cultural strategies are potentially devastating, not just for Nigeria, but the whole of West African region. Since the particular nature of these conflicts increasingly highlights the significance and inevitability of land resources for crops farming and cattle rearing, it is imperative to create awareness of the elemental nature of soils, especially their diversities in these conflict-prone areas. This study's objective was to produce a Geographic Information System (GIS) based digital soil map (DSM) of the north-central region of Nigeria, and to delineate soil distribution and unique properties. Based on this study, the DSM offers a quick access to quantitative soil data covering the study area. It indicates that soil mapping units 15d, 18d and 24b are dominant, and constitute about 40% of the local arable lands. The broad pattern of distribution of these soils reflects both the climatic conditions and the geological structure of the region. The soils are highly weathered with limited capacities to supply essential nutrients needed by crop plants. These issues raise a number of questions, most of which focuses on the best possible way to maximize these soils to accommodate both crop farming and cattle rearing. It is our hope that taking the advantage of GIS to stimulate the knowledge and consciousness of soil distribution in the region will place the weight where it is appropriate in terms of food security through crops production and cattle rearing, and hence forge a more realistic pathway to reconciliation and conflict resolution.

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Climate change, migration and farmer–herder conflict in Ghana

Issifu

Darko

Paalo

2022

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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Climate change, migration, and conflict have been featured prominently in academic and policy literature. While Africa remains the major reference point, studies on key conflict hotspots fail to adequately examine empirical demonstrations of how climate change forces migration, and consequently major conflicts. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews, focus group discussions, and employing the scarcity theory in a study of Agogo (Ghana), we illustrate how regional and local climate/environmental variability and scarcity trigger and sustain migration and farmer–herder conflicts. The findings offer insights into how other non‐climatic and ecological conditions reinforce the so‐called climate‐induced conflicts, exposing the limitations of the scarcity‐theory. Importantly, this study has provided an illustrative argument centered around the contextual dynamics of the nexus between climate change and farmer–herder conflict in Agogo to contribute to national, regional, and continental discussion on this critical topic.

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Climate Change and Inter-Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria

Cited by 28 publications

References 2 publications

Building Capacity to Cope with Climate Change-Induced Resource-Based Conflicts Among Grassroots Communities in Kenya

Building Capacity to Cope with Climate Change-Induced Resource-Based Conflicts Among Grassroots Communities in Kenya

Geospatial Technology Potentials in Reawakening the Consciousness of Soil Distribution in Nigeria’s North-Central Region and Mediating the Herdsmen-Farmers Conflicts

Climate change, migration and farmer–herder conflict in Ghana

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