Drought in Nigeria
[1]Nigeria's drought A long-term drought in Nigeria has resulted in desertification and a shortage of land for raising cattle and growing crops.[2] In order to obtain land for farming or grazing, farmers and herdsmen have been encouraged to go to new areas, which frequently leads to violence.[3][4] Herdsmen and farmers have been engaged in increasingly violent fights over the previous two years.[5][6] More than 2,000 people lost their lives in 2018.[7] However, many residents of the villages in Nigeria's Plateau State are unwilling to leave because they consider the region to be their home.[8] When a community is burned down, new bricks are created to repair the destroyed homes.[9]
Analysis of the orbital photographs from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows that about 900,000 km2 of former savanna grassland in the region of Africa has been severely decertified between the early 1960s and 1986 due to persistent drought occurrences (O'Connor 1995).[10]
Drought is a phenomena that occurs in Nigeria and impacts the whole nation. The arid and semiarid regions are more sensitive than the dryer south, but the degree of vulnerability varies. In Northern Nigeria, there are several records of drought occurrences which resulted in famines in the years 1914, 1924, 1935, 1943, 1951–1954, 1972–1973,Mortimore 1989 and 1991–1995(Tarhule and Woo 1997).[11]
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