Key dimensions of land users’ perceptions of land degradation and sustainable land management in Niger State, Nigeria
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Declining land productivity remains a challenge for agriculture-based livelihoods and achieving food security. Yet identifying how users perceive degradation their capacity to manage in an environmentally sustainable manner can influence the measures initiated address it. Using case of Niger State, Nigeria, this study examines users’ perceptions management it Nigerian Guinea Savannah. We used Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index as proxy status, selecting 30 communities based on extent degraded areas. adapted World Overview Conservation Approaches Technologies, Sustainable Land Management questionnaires capture administered 225 users. Through key informant interviews, we collected narrative insights data perspectives motivations understand situations interpret questionnaire surveys. analysed through descriptive statistics, Principal Component Analysis qualitative analysis. Our analysis identified four dimensions characteristics, two drivers, six management. The results also confirmed that State is both due widespread unsustainable human activities within state those by migrant farmers pastoralism from adjoining Sudan Sahelian states push people further south, leakage ongoing conflicts other To deal with local improved tenure, alternative livelihood strategies, poverty eradication awareness, nature-based practices such tree-based initiatives, friendly agriculture Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration supported necessary political will institutions are critical.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Environmental challenges
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2667-0100']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2022.100544