Climate change-induced conflicts in Southeast Nigeria and urban food security

Implication to urban sustainability and sustainable development

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/1970-9870/9556

Keywords:

Climate change, Food security, Environmental conflict

Abstract

Climate change is multifaceted and complex in its impacts on the human population across the globe. The areas of impacts include food insecurity and urban sustainability issues, which are currently ravaging the developing nations where sustainability policy frameworks are lacking or in passivity. The complex impacts of climate change on the urban population have been explored by some researchers in other regions of the world however, the nexus between climate change-induced conflicts and urban food insecurity and sustainability crises is yet to be empirically explored especially in the developing nations such as in sub-Saharan Africa. The aforementioned research and policy problem was the drive to the present study. The study which was guided by sustainability and climate change models, involved 1,658 respondents among the farming communities in southeast Nigeria using survey design and questionnaire as data gathering instrument. The study concludes that there is a cycle of anthropogenic activities among the urban population contributing to climate change, and climate change crises returning to urban population in form of food security and urban sustainability crises due to weak and passive environmental sustainability policy framework in Nigeria.

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Author Biographies

Samuel O. Okafor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

PhD student in Environment and Demography in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is a promising Scholar with multi methodological research skills in the areas of social sciences and humanities. His research interests include Political Sociology, Policy studies, Colonial and post-colonial studies, Indigenous people, Demography, Medical Sociology, Gender Studies and Environmental Studies.

Sebastian Okechukwu Onah, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

He is a Catholic Priest of the Catholic Diocese of Nsukka, Nigeria. He has a Doctorate degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Nigeria Nsukka, with Social Psychology; Political Anthropology; and Environmental Sociology and Anthropology as stress areas of academic interest. He has published extensively in these areas of study.

George O. Abah, Department of Philosophy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

He obtained his B/Phil and B/TH respectively at the Pontifical Urban University, Rome; his Professional Diploma in Education (PDE) at The College of Education, Nsukka, Nigeria; his M.A and Ph.D respectively in Moral Philosophy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is currently a lecturer in the Philosophy Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), and Institute of Public Health, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (UNEC). His research interests are: environmental ethics, bioethics, virtue ethics, and African philosophy.

Chizoba O. Oranu, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

She is a PhD Student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Malawi and a lecturer in the Department of Agric Economics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

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Published

2023-08-31

How to Cite

Okafor, S. O., Onah, S. O., Abah, G. O., & Oranu, C. O. (2023). Climate change-induced conflicts in Southeast Nigeria and urban food security: Implication to urban sustainability and sustainable development. TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 16(2), 353–366. https://doi.org/10.6093/1970-9870/9556

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2023): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, tools and best practices

Section

LUME (Land Use, Mobility and Environment)

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