Ricerc@Sapienza

The causal nexus that links climate change and migration is definitely among the most urgent issues both at national and international level. If, on the one hand, recent studies have shown that migration flows from vulnerable regions are related to climate change, on the other, up to this point, literature is not advanced enough to uniquely identify the underlying dynamics of this strong linkage.
According to its regional and socio-economic features, Western Africa is one of the best regions to study climate-induced migrations, since the increase in desertification and in average temperatures is reducing agricultural productivity - major source of income of the region -. In this region, migration is often selected by households as the most feasible strategy to improve their living conditions.
Hence, analysing detailed micro-data collected from household-level surveys and detecting how agests disposition varies in reaction to climate change effects in Wester Africa allows for consolidating the understanding of climate-induced migrations and for setting effective policy interventions to cope with climate-induced migrations.