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Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change and Conflict in Africa

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  • Eoin F. McGuirk
  • Nathan Nunn
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We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant populations that herd livestock – i.e., transhumant pastoralists in Africa. Traditionally, transhumant pastoralists benefit from a cooperative relationship with sedentary agriculturalists whereby arable land is used for crop farming in the wet season and animal grazing in the dry season. Droughts can disrupt this arrangement […]

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  • Eoin F. McGuirk & Nathan Nunn, 2021. "Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change and Conflict in Africa," Working Papers 860, Economic Research Southern Africa.
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    Keywords

    Conflict; Growth; Monetary Policy; Other Macroeconomic Variables; Risk and Uncertainty; South Africa;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
    • N10 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - General, International, or Comparative
    • O23 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics

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