Climate Migrants: The Rural Farmers Chased Into Abuja by Droughts

Climate Migrants: The Rural Farmers Chased Into Abuja by Droughts

Aminu Ishaku now earns a living as a commercial motorcyclist in Abuja. His family has five hectares of land in Chadari, a farming village in Kano State’s Makoda Local Government Area, North West Nigeria, where they once planted maize, sorghum, and millet, crops that fed and earned them some money. Until 2021, the land never failed them completely. Some years, it brought 10 bags of sorghum, seven of millet, and nine of maize.  That year, Aminu bo…