Climate Change and Open Grazing impact on Agricultural Production in Benue State, Nigeria.pdf

While climate change has been devastating, its impacts have forced nomadic migration from core northern Nigeria and beyond to the Middle Belt and Southern regions, leading to the normalisation of open grazing and the attendant eruption of herders/farmers' conflicts. We designed this paper to critically examine the climate change impact in Nigeria with a focus on Benue state Nigeria; a state considered the 'food basket of the nation. It seeks to explore the extent to which the combined impacts of climate change and open grazing affect food security.