Environmental Hazards Farmers and Fishermen Land Disputes and Immigration in Africa: Case Study of the Lake Chad Area.

Due to the continues incessant impacts of climate change in Africa resulted in the incessant drying of rivers especially those feeder rivers supplying over 90 % of the Lake water like the River Shari in the republic of Cameroon and the river Yobe in Nigeria this trend has resulted those community living along the courses or banks of these feeder rivers to be blocking the rivers from supplying the water in to the Lake while trying to adapt to the impacts of climate change situation by building Dams along these feeder rivers in quest of water for their irrigational activities as well as other activities like the generation of Hydro electric city and other relevant activities. This situation has resulted in the reduction of the water of the Lake to just 1800 km square.
However due to the negative impacts of the ongoing climate change in this region many of the farmers discovered that the best option for farming in the region under this scenario is to always farm along the shores of the lake this resulted in to a situation whereby the farmers legalized their occupancies of these shores of the lake which they call their lands through purchase under customary laws that are not recognized by the fishing communities as a result the farmers are preventing the fishermen permanently from fishing.