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Climate change, migration and farmer–herder conflict in Ghana

AbstractClimate change, migration, and conflict have been featured prominently in academic and policy literature. While Africa remains the major reference point, studies on key conflict hotspots fail to adequately examine empirical demonstrations of how climate change forces migration, and consequently major conflicts. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews, focus group discussions, and employing the scarcity theory in a study of Agogo (Ghana), we illustrate how regional and local climate/environmental variability and scarcity trigger and sustain migration and farmer–herder conflicts. The findings offer insights into how other non‐climatic and ecological conditions reinforce the so‐called climate‐induced conflicts, exposing the limitations of the scarcity‐theory. Importantly, this study has provided an illustrative argument centered around the contextual dynamics of the nexus between climate change and farmer–herder conflict in Agogo to contribute to national, regional, and continental discussion on this critical topic.
- University of Eastern Finland Finland
- Flinders University Australia
- Flinders University Australia
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Ghana
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Ghana
Sociology and Political Science, Water scarcity, Economics, FOS: Political science, Social Sciences, Argument (complex analysis), Biochemistry, Resource Scarcity, Conflict resolution, Impact of Climate Change on Human Migration, Migrations, Sociology, Microeconomics, Climate change, Environmental resource management, Embedded system, Political science, Biology, Development economics, Scarcity, Geography, Ecology, Economic geography, Conflict theories, Agriculture, Social science, Computer science, FOS: Sociology, Chemistry, Influence of Climate on Human Conflict, Archaeology, FOS: Biological sciences, Community Resilience to Natural Disasters, Nexus (standard)
Sociology and Political Science, Water scarcity, Economics, FOS: Political science, Social Sciences, Argument (complex analysis), Biochemistry, Resource Scarcity, Conflict resolution, Impact of Climate Change on Human Migration, Migrations, Sociology, Microeconomics, Climate change, Environmental resource management, Embedded system, Political science, Biology, Development economics, Scarcity, Geography, Ecology, Economic geography, Conflict theories, Agriculture, Social science, Computer science, FOS: Sociology, Chemistry, Influence of Climate on Human Conflict, Archaeology, FOS: Biological sciences, Community Resilience to Natural Disasters, Nexus (standard)
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