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    EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PASTORALISTS TRANSNATIONAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AND THE NEED FOR SUSTAINABLE MECHANISM IN WEST AFRICA
    (Al_Hikmah University Law Journal, 2020-04-30) Shuaib Oniye and Hanafi A. Hammed
    One of the most pressing issues facing current generation across the Africa continent is the effects of climate change that necessitate the movement of pastoralists from dryland to green land areas especially during dry season. This movement often affect the farmers and destroy their agricultural produce. This has attracted a lot of condemnation both at national and international levels.owing to the bloody violence and extreme behaviour of the pastoralists while searching for green land areas to feed their livestock. It is not gainsaying that West Africa, as a sovereign region, has unanimously launched a careful campaign to curb the existing crisis of farmers and herdsmen because of their respective economic values. While the response of West Africa region to combat the crisis has been applauded; the lackadaisical attitude by the security personnel manning each country's borders across the region remains problematic. To this end, this paper, while adopting analytical research methodology, seeks to analyse how climate change is affecting transnational economic activities of pastoralist across borders in West Africa region and mechanisms to curb conflicts between herders and farmers The paper argues that there are serious and continuous strategies to curb the spread of transnational movement of pastoralist in the various borders across West Africa region. The paper contends that the available strategies to curb transnational movement of pastoralist are not adequate across our borders as a result of lack of political will on the part of government which remains the ultimate challenges. The paper recommends