Climate Change, Banditry and Transborder Crime: Interrogating Food Insecurity in Northern Nigeria.

Northern Nigeria in recent times is finding it difficult to adequately feed its huge population and supply food to the rest of the country as well as other part of West African sub-region. Unfortunately, research attentions as not been able to establish how Climate Change, Banditry and Transborder Crime is underscored as major threat to food security. The objectives of this article paper is to examine Climate Change, Banditry and Transborder Crime, interrogating food insecurity in northern Nigeria. The methodology adopted to generate data for the study is through the use of secondary sources of data. Consequently, the paper takes to scrutinize the concept of climate change, banditry trans-border crime, food security and food insecurity. The paper in addition to other issues, relies on Social Conflict Theory as it theoretical explanation for this study. In the mean the paper discovers that negative impacts of climate change that manifested in the form of drought and increasing desertification, drying up of water resources (rivers and lakes), increasing ambient temperature and changing climate seasons. For instance has led to banditry revealing in the form of killing and kidnapping of farmers, chasing of farmers out of their farmlands, seizing of farmlands, theft of cattle, burning and raiding of grain silos, and blocking of local trade routes, have remained principally distorts food security in Northern Nigeria. On the other hand activities in Transborder crimes, such as trafficking in arms, persons, drugs; armed banditry, gun‐running, vehicle theft, smuggling, touting and duping, and illegal or silent migration serious negative effects on food security in Northern Nigeria. The paper concludes that to mitigate food insecurity demand the collective efforts of government across board with proactive commitment in tackling Climate Change, Banditry and Transborder Crime and improving food security. The paper thus, suggest the following as its modest recommendations; implement home grown climate adoptability, mitigating and resilience mechanism and support for a low carbon emission economy; by calling for a strategic way of doing things from the business as usual ways of securing our borders manually to technological driven border control system; adequate training of our security personnel on the modern trends in migration and border management; taking decisive measures in tackling banditry and people centric food policy that would guarantee accessible, affordable and nutritious food for the people healthy life.