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Migration
Migration in the GCC? Urbanization?? Dangers of building Mega-Cities??? Environmental or Social? :- (((
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Migration in Northern Nigeria
The increasing pressure on the limited natural resources of the desertification-prone zone, arising from internal migratory patterns as well as the influx of migrants from neighboring countries, results in overgrazing and continuous overexploitation of marginal ecosystems.* While settlements and infrastructure are being buried under shifting sand dunes in the northern parts of the country, the pressure of migrating human and livestock populations from these areas are being absorbed by pressure point buffer states, were violence over land rights is on the increase. So even these communal clashes in Northern Nigeria by the media often misinterpreted or misrepresented as ethnic and religious clashes are actually a struggle over the control of natural resources or sometimes even a fight to sustain people’s livelihood. These resource inequities intertwined with population growth, institutional constraints, and economic insufficiency lead to low agricultural productivity even during years of normal precipitation.
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