Conflicts, Land Resources, and Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Food Security in Northern Ghana
摘要
This chapter reviews the combined effects of conflicts, land resources, climate change, and its implications for food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study thematically focused on four commercial and peasant farming communities within the precincts of Northern Ghana. The study adopts the qualitative research approach. The following research questions were denudated: (a) How do the combined effects of conflicts, land resources, and climate change affect food security in northern Ghana? (b) To what extent do conflicts, land resources, and climate change affect food production, distribution, and exchange in northern Ghana? (c). What are the coping strategies for dealing with food insecurity in northern Ghana? The chapter argues that the widespread conflicts, land resources, and the effects of climate change inversely tincture large-scale production, distribution, and food exchange in the study area. The study recommends stringent measures from the state to curb or reduce the menace of communal intra-interethnic conflicts; the indiscriminate expropriation of agricultural lands from farmers by traditional leaders for real estate development to the detriment of food production to stem hunger and ensure food security.