Climate Change and Seasonal Agro-Pastoral Conflicts in the Upper Noun Valley, Cameroon

Agro-pastoralism is the main livelihood strategy in Sub-Saharan African communities, involving crop cultivation and livestock production at different scale. Climate change has been a major factor driving seasonal agro-pastoral activities and conflicts, determining seasonal migration agro-pastoral activities in communities across the Upper Noun Valley (UNV) in the Western Highlands of Cameroon. In UNV, where this study is based, agro-pastoral production is dominated by two identical cultures with the Fulani pastoralists involve in livestock production and crop cultivation dominated by smallholder farming communities. Agro-pastoral conflicts in the region has been a common and growing problem exacerbated in the last few decades by climate change, increasing population growth and communal land grabbing by elites for commercial agro-pastoral production. This paper aims at investigating the extent of climate change effects and related human-environmental factors on seasonal agro-pastoral conflicts in UNV, and how this human-environmental conflicts could be resolved for a sustainable food security and community development.