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Abstract
Lake Chad is a vitally crucial wetland in the semi- arid Sahel region of Africa provides the basis of many millions of livelihoods which defends on its water and seasonal fluctuation to renew irrigation, fish stocks, and farmland. This research is examining lake shrinking and livelihood changes in the context of multiple stressors through a case study of lake Chad of with the help of remote sensing data, in the continent of Africa, research on Livelihoods about regions shows declined in water body fluctuations has largely focused on the wellbeing and security of people on the lake shore. The demonstrates that limited opportunities outside agriculture, the influx of mixed ethnic migrants, Boko Haram of Northern Nigeria which is terror group occupy lake part of Nigeria that led people of the area migrate as refugee to other state and city of Maiduguri and the increasing spate of violence all enhance livelihood changes. Livelihood opportunities Centre on the renewal effects of seasonal floods pulses on lake waters and learning opportunities triggered by past droughts. Although the reverse of the water body has brought new adaptive changes to the shore of basin behaviors on seasonality, traditional prognostic factors and availability of assets, responses have remained largely reactive. The research is focus on the factors responsible for the changes in socioeconomic activities of the people who are reside on the lake shore, and suggests that awareness of the particularities of the mechanisms that connect lake drying to livelihoods
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