Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper
Intervention Context: WFP’s activities in Burkina Faso and Niger focus on fragile agrarian communities in the Sahel, where cyclical floods and droughts combine with decreasing soil fertility and increasing desertification, among other challenges, to aggravate food and livelihood insecurity. Increase...
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| author | Pul, Hippolyt Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Konde, Bernard B. Zogho, Donatus Kuuchille, Emmanuel V. McCarthy, Nancy Marivoet, Wim |
| author_browse | Konde, Bernard B. Kuuchille, Emmanuel V. Marivoet, Wim McCarthy, Nancy Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Pul, Hippolyt Zogho, Donatus |
| author_facet | Pul, Hippolyt Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Konde, Bernard B. Zogho, Donatus Kuuchille, Emmanuel V. McCarthy, Nancy Marivoet, Wim |
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| description | Intervention Context: WFP’s activities in Burkina Faso and Niger focus on fragile agrarian communities in the Sahel, where cyclical floods and droughts combine with decreasing soil fertility and increasing desertification, among other challenges, to aggravate food and livelihood insecurity. Increased competition for land for food crops and pastures as well as water for domestic, productive, and livestock use, intensify conflicts over ownership and usage rights for land and the commons such as forests. in particular, this competition has heightened conflicts between farmers and herders. Layered on these localized conflicts are recent increases in human safety and security concerns related to the spread of attacks by violent extremist groups across the eastern flanks of both countries. The increasing frequency and intensity of these attacks have led to the loss of lives, property, and the displacement of large groups of people. The attendant deepening of food, livelihood, and human insecurities has contributed to a rural exodus of men and women to cities and other economic enclaves in search of alternate sources of food and income. The arrival of displaced persons fleeing the attacks has increased pressure on already limited food stocks and other assets of host communities. COVID-19 added another layer of vulnerability. In addition to the disease burden, lockdowns and restrictions on the movement of persons affected the ability of communities to travel to engage in nonfarm economic activities for supplementary income and food. This greatly affected the food and livelihood security systems of the populations in these already impoverished and fragile communities. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1302532025-11-06T06:28:16Z Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper Pul, Hippolyt Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Konde, Bernard B. Zogho, Donatus Kuuchille, Emmanuel V. McCarthy, Nancy Marivoet, Wim resilience shocks food security livelihoods natural resources climate change adaptation natural disasters agricultural systems conflict migration infrastructure resources Intervention Context: WFP’s activities in Burkina Faso and Niger focus on fragile agrarian communities in the Sahel, where cyclical floods and droughts combine with decreasing soil fertility and increasing desertification, among other challenges, to aggravate food and livelihood insecurity. Increased competition for land for food crops and pastures as well as water for domestic, productive, and livestock use, intensify conflicts over ownership and usage rights for land and the commons such as forests. in particular, this competition has heightened conflicts between farmers and herders. Layered on these localized conflicts are recent increases in human safety and security concerns related to the spread of attacks by violent extremist groups across the eastern flanks of both countries. The increasing frequency and intensity of these attacks have led to the loss of lives, property, and the displacement of large groups of people. The attendant deepening of food, livelihood, and human insecurities has contributed to a rural exodus of men and women to cities and other economic enclaves in search of alternate sources of food and income. The arrival of displaced persons fleeing the attacks has increased pressure on already limited food stocks and other assets of host communities. COVID-19 added another layer of vulnerability. In addition to the disease burden, lockdowns and restrictions on the movement of persons affected the ability of communities to travel to engage in nonfarm economic activities for supplementary income and food. This greatly affected the food and livelihood security systems of the populations in these already impoverished and fragile communities. 2023-05-03 2023-05-04T16:38:36Z 2023-05-04T16:38:36Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130253 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136696 https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000150264/download/?_ga=2.165233725.36836985.1687370753-1234082781.1682605553 https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000150403/download/?_ga=2.202517523.36836985.1687370753-1234082781.1682605553 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Pul, Hippolyt; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Konde, Bernard B.; Zogho, Donatus; Kuuchille, Emmanuel V.; McCarthy, Nancy; and Marivoet, Wim. 2023. Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper. WFP Working Paper. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136695 |
| spellingShingle | resilience shocks food security livelihoods natural resources climate change adaptation natural disasters agricultural systems conflict migration infrastructure resources Pul, Hippolyt Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Konde, Bernard B. Zogho, Donatus Kuuchille, Emmanuel V. McCarthy, Nancy Marivoet, Wim Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper |
| title | Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper |
| title_full | Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper |
| title_fullStr | Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper |
| title_short | Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper |
| title_sort | sahel social cohesion research in burkina faso and niger working paper |
| topic | resilience shocks food security livelihoods natural resources climate change adaptation natural disasters agricultural systems conflict migration infrastructure resources |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130253 |
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