Unpacking the Food Security Crisis in the Ecologically Fragile and Conflict-Ridden Lake Chad Basin

Interrogating NGOs' Response to the Climate Change-Security Nexus

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ID21641583
AuthorsLotsmart Fonjong (0000-0002-8613-0628, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA, corresponding author), James Emmanuel Wanki (McGill University)
Year2024
Volume33
Issue3
Pages370-388
Publication date2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Environment & Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1070-4965 • E-ISSN: 1552-5465
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10704965241231550
OpenAlexW4391472959
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

A 2018 United Nations report highlights the growing need for funding and assistance to the Lake Chad Basin (LCB). The food security crisis in the LCB is a blend of complex factors relating to the declining water of Lake Chad and protracted insecurity fanned by Boko Haram insurgency. Unfortunately, development agencies sometimes focus less on how the climate change-insecurity nexus is becoming increasingly consequential in explaining the LCB’s profile in fragility. This paper considers the extent to which international agencies and nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) respond to multiple crises, integrating both climate change and security facets in their analysis and response to the food crisis besetting the LCB. Findings from interviews in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger reveal that NGOs fail to sufficiently take climate change into account in their policies and strategies, in that many food assistance programs are climate change neutral in content and focus

Archaeology · Climate change · Development economics · Economics · Environmental resource management · Environmental security · Food insecurity · Food security · Geography · Natural resource economics · Political science · Unpacking · Health and Conflict Studies · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Ecology

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