The Future of Pastoralism in the Sahel Zone of West Africa: Climate Change: Impacts & Consequencies on Pastoralism

By Mohammed Ibrahim Bare

This paper seeks to examine the challenges of climate change on pastoralism, considering its far-reaching impact and consequences. Over the years or decades, climate change has adversely affected the lives of millions of nomadic pastoralists and semi-nomadic pastoralists as well as those sedentary groups that benefit from the sector. The deterioration of the global weather conditions occasioned by severe drought and desert advancement which is attributed to trends in greenhouse gas emissions are the key driving factors that resulted in discouraging and frustrating pastoralism or pastoral activities in the Sudano-sahelian zone, unless adaptive strategies are taken to address the situation.