Climate change, migration and farmer–herder conflict in Ghana

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21741678
AutoresAbdul Karim Issifu (0000-0002-2259-6947, University of Eastern Finland, autor de correspondencia), Francis Diawuo Darko (0000-0002-5725-6299, Flinders University), Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo (0000-0003-4757-6149, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
Año2022
Volumen39
Número4
Páginas421-439
Fecha de publicación2022-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaConflict Resolution Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1536-5581 • E-ISSN: 1541-1508
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/crq.21346
OpenAlexW4225166169
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22
Referencias citadas27

Climate 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

Agriculture · Climate change · Conflict resolution · Conflict theories · Development economics · Economic geography · Economics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Political science · Scarcity · Social science · Sociology · Water scarcity · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Ecology