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- Title
Climate Change and Open Grazing impact on Agricultural production in Benue State, Nigeria.
- Authors
Sheidu, Comfort Fatimoh; Patrick, Hosea Olayiwola
- Abstract
The devastating duo of climate change and open grazing has increasingly affected the agricultural sector in Nigeria and, more importantly, the food supply. While climate change has been devastating, its impacts forced nomadic migration from core northern Nigeria and beyond to the Middle-belt and Southern regions, leading to the normalization of open grazing and its attendant eruption of herders/farmers conflicts. This paper is designed to critically examine the climate change impact in Nigeria with a focus on Benue state Nigeria; a state considered the 'food basket of the nation. It seeks to explore the extent to which the combined impacts of climate change and open grazing affect food security. This paper draws its data largely from systematically collected secondary data using doctrinal and analytical research methods. The findings from the study reveal that climate change and open grazing play a crucial part in food shortage in the country and the intensification of conflict within the region. Therefore, the government and all concerned entities need to put in place appropriate measures, such as adopting new technologies to adjust to climate change and applying modern cattle ranching systems that will address the problems of climate change and open grazing, respectively, which are rapidly decreasing the food supply rate in Nigeria's agricultural sector.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; CLIMATE change; AGRICULTURE; GRAZING; ANIMAL feeding
- Publication
African Journal of Public Administration & Environmental Studies (AJOPAES), 2023, Vol 2, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
2753-3174
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31920/2753-3182/2023/v2n1a2