Citizens’ Beliefs, Climate Change, and the Farmer-Pastoralist’s Violent Conflict: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria

This study looks at how support for sedentary pastoralism-supporting policies and people's perceptions that climate change is a contributing factor to conflict. We respond to the following two queries: Does providing information regarding the degree of changing climate leading to herder-farmer conflicts owing to pastoralist migration and consequent farm encroachment increase citizens' support for the state-ranching government initiative? Second, what combination of policy choices is most impacted by knowledge about the severity of herder-farmer conflict brought on by climate change?