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Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper

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Title Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper
 
Creator Pul, Hippolyt
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela
Konde, Bernard B.
Zogho, Donatus
Kuuchille, Emmanuel V.
McCarthy, Nancy
Marivoet, Wim
 
Subject resilience
shocks
food security
livelihoods
natural resources
climate change adaptation
natural disasters
agricultural systems
conflict
migration
infrastructure
resources
 
Description Intervention Context: WFP’s activities in Burkina Faso and Niger focus on fragile agrarian communities in the Sahel, where cyclical floods and droughts combine with decreasing soil fertility and increasing desertification, among other challenges, to aggravate food and livelihood insecurity. Increased competition for land for food crops and pastures as well as water for domestic, productive, and livestock use, intensify conflicts over ownership and usage rights for land and the commons such as forests. in particular, this competition has heightened conflicts between farmers and herders. Layered on these localized conflicts are recent increases in human safety and security concerns related to the spread of attacks by violent extremist groups across the eastern flanks of both countries. The increasing frequency and intensity of these attacks have led to the loss of lives, property, and the displacement of large groups of people. The attendant deepening of food, livelihood, and human insecurities has contributed to a rural exodus of men and women to cities and other economic enclaves in search of alternate sources of food and income. The arrival of displaced persons fleeing the attacks has increased pressure on already limited food stocks and other assets of host communities. COVID-19 added another layer of vulnerability. In addition to the disease burden, lockdowns and restrictions on the movement of persons affected the ability of communities to travel to engage in nonfarm economic activities for supplementary income and food. This greatly affected the food and livelihood security systems of the populations in these already impoverished and fragile communities.
 
Date 2023-05-03
2023-05-04T16:38:36Z
2023-05-04T16:38:36Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Pul, Hippolyt; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Konde, Bernard B.; Zogho, Donatus; Kuuchille, Emmanuel V.; McCarthy, Nancy; and Marivoet, Wim. 2023. Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Working Paper. WFP Working Paper. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130253
https://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/136695
 
Language en
 
Relation WFP Working Paper
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute