A climate of migration in the Sahel: between mobility and immobility
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https://doi.org/10.51349/veg.2026.1.09Palabras clave:
Sahel, climatic change, migration, adaptation, frontierResumen
The effects of climate change will be particularly severe in the Sahel zone in the coming decades with rising temperatures, possible widespread desertification and environmental degradation (IPCC, 2019). Policymakers and international organisations evoke a “threat multiplier” with climate change impacts, increased food insecurity, more conflicts and more displacement (Tesfaye, 2022). But the reasoning is less obvious than it seems. First, the relationship between climate phenomena and mobility must be deepened; second, the main climate impacts in the area must be well and rigorously delimited to elucidate whether desertification is occurring or, on the contrary, a greening in the Sahel; third, how climate change will impact displacement in the area; and finally, how migration policies affect mobility in the region.
This article focuses, from a political ecology approach, on the complex interaction between human (in)mobility and climate change in the central Sahel, basically Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.
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