Desertification [plus] Migration = Security?
13 Pages Posted: 4 Oct 2008 Last revised: 12 Oct 2008
Date Written: June 26, 2007
Abstract
This paper was prepared for, and published, in the Desertification and Security Conference Proceedings, German Federal Foreign Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, Berlin, Germany. The author discusses the relationship between migration and the deterioration of sub-Saharan drylands and related security issues for both African and European countries.
Keywords: desertification, migration, security, Africa, drylands, poverty, agriculture
JEL Classification: K33, N47, O15, O55
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Leighton, Michelle T., Desertification [plus] Migration = Security? (June 26, 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1278187 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1278187
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