MIGRAWARE (MIGRAWARE)
Project: MIGRAWARE completed ·
Profile MIGRAWARE

Project Title
MIGRAWARE
(Original TitleRural-urban and cross-border MIGRAtion in West-Africa - an integrated assessment framework of drivers, processes and sustainable REsponses)
Project-Duration
December 2020 - December 2024 (completed)
Project-Lead
Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst
Project-Orientation
Research, knowledge exchange
Research Area
Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria
Contact
Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst
Project-Staff
- Dr. Justice Nana Inkoom
- Alina Schürmann
Funding-Agencies
- BMBF
Partners
- University of Cape Coast
- University Nazi Boni
- CoKnow Consulting
- PiSolution GmbH
- Federal University of Technology Minna
- Julius-Maximilian University Würzburg
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
- CSIR Savanna Agricultural Research Institute
- Hen Mpoano
- West African Science Service Center for Climate Change and Adapted Land-Use
Publications
Aweda, E.D., Okhimamhe, A.A., Obateru, R.O., Schürmann, A., Teucher, M. and Conrad, C. (2024). Assessing the Impacts of Migration on Land Degradation in the Savannah Region of Nigeria. Sustainability, 16, 8157. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16188157
Schürman, A., Teucher, M., Kleemann, J., Inkoom, J.N., Nyarko, B.K., Okhimamhe, A.A., Conrad, C. (2025) Spatial assessment of current and future migration in response to climate risks in Ghana and Nigeria. Frontiers in Climate 7:1516045. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1516045
Schürmann, A., Kleemann, J., Teucher, M., Conrad, C. (2024) Mapping socio-environmental vulnerability to assess rural migration in Ghana. Applied Geography 167, 103283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103283
Schürmann, A., Kleemann, J., Teucher, M., Fürst, C., Conrad, C. (2022) Migration in West Africa: A visual analysis of motivation, causes and routes. Ecology and Society 27(3), 16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13489-270316
