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National Action Programme for Adaptation to Climate Change (NAPA)

National Action Programme for Adaptation to Climate Change (NAPA)

Climate Change
Policy
2007
Year of publication
2007
Specific thematic area
Climate adaptation and/or mitigation
Sector of governance
Climate change
Type of human mobility
Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Internal, Cross-border
Type of environmental driver
Drought
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Slow-onset
Sub-region
Western Africa
Region
Western Africa
Macro-region
Africa
Author/issuing body
Ministry of Environment
Relevant GCM objective
    GCM Objective 2 - Minimize adverse drivers
Child marker
C
Gender marker
B
Human rights marker
C

(...) la migration est devenue de plus en plus une stratégie face à ces nouvelles conditions climatiques et environnementales précaires.

Ps. 23, 34

Face à la sécheresse, il a été constaté une forte migration des populations du Nord vers le Sud du pays et une forte émigration vers les pays côtiers et l’Occident. Cette mobilité entre dans le cadre de l’adaptation autonome que les populations ont spontanément développée. En effet, durant cette période, les bras valides émigraient vers des localités et des pays plus propices dans le souci d’y travailler afin de revenir payer des vivres pour nourrir la famille restée sur place. Pour les populations qui ne pouvaient plus émigrer et qui étaient condamnées à rester sur place les moyens de subsistance étaient souvent liés à des ressources comme : des légumineuses ou des végétaux comestibles, des produits de cueillette devenus eux aussi rares, des champignons et des tubercules de plantes sauvages, des produits de chasse et de pêche, des fruits sauvages ou domestiques, des graminées sauvages. TRANSLATION -

Ps. 23, 34

(...) migration has increasingly become a strategy to cope with these new precarious climatic and environmental conditions.

Ps. 23, 34

In the face of the drought, there has been a strong migration of populations from the North to the South of the country and a strong emigration to the coastal countries and the West. This mobility is part of the autonomous adaptation that the populations have spontaneously developed. Indeed, during this period, the able-bodied emigrated to more favourable localities and countries in order to work there and return to pay for food to feed the family that remained behind. For the populations that could no longer emigrate and were condemned to remain on the spot, the means of subsistence were often linked to resources such as: leguminous or edible plants, gathered products that had also become rare, mushrooms and tubers from wild plants, hunting and fishing products, wild or domesticated fruits, wild grasses.

Ps. 23, 34

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).