Assessing climate change vulnerability and livelihood strategies in Burkina Faso including insecurity paradigm: a focus on rain-fed agriculture households

Environment Development and Sustainability, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Окт. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Unravelling Africa’s misgovernment: How state failures fuel the emergence of violent non-state actors: Selected case studies

Cogent Social Sciences, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 9(1)

Опубликована: Июнь 26, 2023

This paper explores the multifaceted challenges post-colonial African states face in addressing underdevelopment and ethnoreligious intolerance, resulting an unstable socio-economic political environment. It argues that inability of post-independent to foster good governance, accountability, inclusive politics has given rise violent non-state actors (VNSAs) seeking challenge state's legitimacy due its failure provide essential services. With Africa's diverse makeup, fragmentation governance inevitably incites rebellion against state, fuelling growth influence VNSAs. utilizes a literature review methodology address research question insights into subject matter. By employing concept state fragility as analytical framework, it examines how elitism corruption have come define modern state. As result, emerged significant challengers established rules-based order Furthermore, these VNSAs find support among marginalized local populations, which grown disillusioned with elites exploiting their power neglecting responsibility deliver In light findings, this underscores urgent need for collective developmental framework prioritizes involvement people process. Without such will persist questioning legitimacy, leading dire repercussions human life overall stability continent.

Язык: Английский

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Abundance and Breeding Ecology of Critically Endangered Vultures in Mole National Park, Ghana

Journal of Raptor Research, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 57(4)

Опубликована: Июль 28, 2023

Los buitres están entre las especies más amenazadas en África, con varias peligro crítico de extinción que sobreviven principalmente o sólo áreas protegidas. Las disminuciones del oeste África correlacionadas pérdidas pronunciadas hábitat natural y fauna mamíferos, el comercio silvestre para medicina tradicional, rituales basados creencias carne caza son los factores principales impulsan su local. datos actuales sobre abundancia ecología reproductiva cruciales conservación, pero faltan muchos países, incluyendo Ghana. Entre 2020 2022, realizamos 761 km censos Parque Nacional Mole (PN Mole), una sabana protegida 4840 km2 norte Usando nuestros conteo, estimamos poblaciones 29–36 individuos Necrosyrtes monachus, 25–73 Gyps africanus 3–4 Trigonoceps occipitalis la región sur PN Mole. También documentamos 17 nidos buitre ocupados, seis N. 10 G. un nido T. occipitalis. Nuestros hallazgos incluyen primeros registros monachus Mole, primera descripción Ghana Ghana, confirmando importancia conservar extinción. Reducir furtiva, prevenir matanza silvestre, proteger recursos alimenticios será fundamental supervivencia Occidental. [Traducción autores editada]

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Bandits’ Struggle for Survival and its Humanitarian Impacts in Zamfara State, Nigeria

Cogent Social Sciences, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 9(1)

Опубликована: Июль 30, 2023

Over time, the conflict between farmers and herdsmen has intensified transformed into banditry in Zamfara state. While literature underscores causational transformational issues, how desperate attempts of bandits to survive led fierce upsurges attacks state not been extensively explored. Hence, this paper examines bandits' desperation for survival its impacts on The adopts constructionist thematic analysis, explanatory sequential methods was applied while presenting analyzing data from secondary sources Focus Group Discussions (FGDs). Predicated eco-survivalism, were due competing challenge vigilantes government eliminate them their source illegitimate wealth. They created more ferocious reinvigoration accomplish goals. It upscaled deterioration humanitarian crises Many lives lost, kidnapping skyrocketed, properties destroyed, with appalling human displacements. consequences a significant drop agricultural production loss livelihood sources, increased health challenges, devastating proliferation out-of-school children. This suggests gradual confidence building through effective security governance interested reducing rehabilitating ensure peaceful coexistence.

Язык: Английский

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State responses to herder–farmers conflict and peace-building in rural grazing areas of Nigeria

Journal of Aggression Conflict and Peace Research, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 16(2), С. 128 - 146

Опубликована: Сен. 11, 2023

Purpose Conflicts between herders and farmers in Nigeria the last five years have been destructive to corporate existence of Nigerian society State, especially Northcentral, Northwestern Southern Nigeria. This paper aims investigate relationships state responses peace-building rural grazing communities using a National Survey on Peace-building conducted by this team cross-sectional survey 1,711 herders. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted political economy herder–farmers conflict Africa contextualise problem. Data generated from were analysed chi-square test binary logistic regression model. Findings results showed that protection victims ( P = 0.024), blockage sources illicit weapons 0.000), arrest leaders 0.043), provision shelter 0.030), food 0.037), women sexual exploitation abuse 0.019) use media positively related areas. further found when Federal Government ß 0.452, 0.018), State 0.522, private individuals 0.855, 0.000) cooperative societies 0.744, 0.021) established ranches, peace was likely be guaranteed as opposed where –0.355, 0.029) allowed establish ranches implying must cautious implementation Livestock Transformation Plans not create an impression it is designed favour Originality/value To best authors’ knowledge, original has submitted any journal.

Язык: Английский

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