EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PASTORALISTS TRANSNATIONAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AND THE NEED FOR SUSTAINABLE MECHANISM IN WEST AFRICA
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2020-04-30
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Al_Hikmah University Law Journal
Abstract
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
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Al_Hikmah University Law Journal AULJ 2020