Desertification and a new countermeasure in the Sahel, West Africa

Ikazaki, Kenta

doi:10.1080/00380768.2015.1025350

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“…Due to dryness in northern Nigeria's Sahel area, herders and livestock have been forced to migrate to the southern portions of the country in quest of grassland. This southerly shift of herders and their cattle has exacerbated herder-farmer confrontations, particularly in the north central part over two decades (McFarland, 2019;International Crisis Group, 2018;Ikazaki, 2015;Olagunju, 2015). The increase in the frequency of droughts, the lack of water supplies have also conspired to drive herders and their herds towards the north central of Nigeria; where farmers and herders alike depend on steady access to land and water to thrive.…”

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Farmers-Herders Conflicts in Nigeria: Rethinking the Influence of Foreign Herders in North Central Region

Nwakanma,

Aina

2023

CTSMSR

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The Farmers-herders conflict can be said to be as old as Nigeria's history, but has increased significant in the past decades. The migration of Fulani herders from neighbouring countries due to the porosity of the Nigeria’s borders has escalated the conflict, leading to security problems in the country. This paper explores the influence of foreign herders on the farmers-herders conflicts in North Central of Nigeria. The methodology used in this study is the qualitative approach; using the semi-structured interviews in collecting primary data, and the use of journals, articles, online publications and unpublished works related to the study as sources for secondary data. The study found an exacerbation of conflict occasioned by the influx of foreign herders and recommends that improved immigration regulations to ensure that all migrant herders entering the nation are properly registered and identified by their home country in line with the ECOWAS Transhumance Protocol. It recommends further that a task force should be established to work with the previously settled Fulani herders to detect and remove migrant herders who cross borders illegally, to assist in the internal management of migrant herders. Keywords: Conflicts, Farmers-herders, Forieign herders, Migration, Porous border

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Section: Duncan's Theory Of Migrationmentioning

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Farmers-Herders Conflicts in Nigeria: Rethinking the Influence of Foreign Herders in North Central Region

Nwakanma,

Aina

2023

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“…Land Use Land Cover (LULC) plays a critical role in local and global environmental change studies (Mohammed et al, 2018;Belay and Mengistu, 2019;Hailu, Mammo and Kidane, 2020;Nse, Okolie and Nse, 2020). LU and anthropogenic activities have largely resulted in deforestation, land degradation, deterioration, desertification, and habitat loss (Ikazaki, 2015;Hishe et al, 2020). These environment issues are almost connected to LULC changes (Ketema et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2020).…”

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Detecting Land Cover Changes in the Western Sudan Using Landsat Data from 1994 to 2015

Abdelmanan¹,

Zhang²,

Ishag³

2020

IJRP

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“…However, the opposite influence of vegetation on the planetary climate is of primary importance too [5][6][7][8]. Here, among others, deforestation experiments for the Amazon [9][10][11][12], desertification experiments for the Sahel [13,14] and experiments for the boreal forest [15,16] may be mentioned.…”

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Noise-induced transitions and shifts in a climate–vegetation feedback model

Alexandrov¹,

Bashkirtseva²,

Ryashko³

2018

R. Soc. open sci.

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Motivated by the extremely important role of the Earth’s vegetation dynamics in climate changes, we study the stochastic variability of a simple climate–vegetation system. In the case of deterministic dynamics, the system has one stable equilibrium and limit cycle or two stable equilibria corresponding to two opposite (cold and warm) climate–vegetation states. These states are divided by a separatrix going across a point of unstable equilibrium. Some possible stochastic scenarios caused by different externally induced natural and anthropogenic processes inherit properties of deterministic behaviour and drastically change the system dynamics. We demonstrate that the system transitions across its separatrix occur with increasing noise intensity. The climate–vegetation system therewith fluctuates, transits and localizes in the vicinity of its attractor. We show that this phenomenon occurs within some critical range of noise intensities. A noise-induced shift into the range of smaller global average temperatures corresponding to substantial oscillations of the Earth’s vegetation cover is revealed. Our analysis demonstrates that the climate–vegetation interactions essentially contribute to climate dynamics and should be taken into account in more precise and complex models of climate variability.

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Desertification and a new countermeasure in the Sahel, West Africa

Cited by 16 publications

References 41 publications

Farmers-Herders Conflicts in Nigeria: Rethinking the Influence of Foreign Herders in North Central Region

Farmers-Herders Conflicts in Nigeria: Rethinking the Influence of Foreign Herders in North Central Region

Detecting Land Cover Changes in the Western Sudan Using Landsat Data from 1994 to 2015

Noise-induced transitions and shifts in a climate–vegetation feedback model

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