How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria
As climate change stretches Nigeria’s dry seasons and disrupts traditional grazing patterns, tensions between nomadic herders and settled farmers fuel violent conflict—most intensely just before the planting season. New research shows how repeated exposure to violence shifts labour patterns differen...
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| description | As climate change stretches Nigeria’s dry seasons and disrupts traditional grazing patterns, tensions between nomadic herders and settled farmers fuel violent conflict—most intensely just before the planting season. New research shows how repeated exposure to violence shifts labour patterns differently by gender and across agricultural seasons. While households often pivot to non-farm enterprise work, these shifts fail to offset economic losses, revealing indirect costs of conflict. Despite policy efforts such as open-grazing bans, violence has surged, highlighting the failure of exclusionary approaches and the need for inclusive policymaking. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1755662025-07-17T17:46:02Z How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria Bloem, Jeffrey R. Damon, Amy Francis, David Mitchell, Harrison climate change conflicts farmers households As climate change stretches Nigeria’s dry seasons and disrupts traditional grazing patterns, tensions between nomadic herders and settled farmers fuel violent conflict—most intensely just before the planting season. New research shows how repeated exposure to violence shifts labour patterns differently by gender and across agricultural seasons. While households often pivot to non-farm enterprise work, these shifts fail to offset economic losses, revealing indirect costs of conflict. Despite policy efforts such as open-grazing bans, violence has surged, highlighting the failure of exclusionary approaches and the need for inclusive policymaking. 2025-07-08 2025-07-09T17:35:34Z 2025-07-09T17:35:34Z Opinion Piece https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175566 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103512 Open Access VoxDev Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Damon, Amy; Francis, David; and Mitchell, Harrison. 2025. How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria. VoxDev. First available online on July 8, 2025. https://voxdev.org/topic/energy-environment/how-climate-induced-conflict-shaping-rural-nigeria |
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| title | How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria |
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