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Paper short abstract:

The curbing strategies adopted by displaced victims of flood in Taraba State, how to restore their dis-articulated means of livelihood after self-returned or resettlement and how to mitigate perennial occurrences of flood.

Paper long abstract:

Climate change has been a major discourse amongst nations and development experts globally in recent decades. Because of the rising ill human activities against the environment, global warming is said to be moving at the fastest rate and disrupting the course of nature. The recurring discourse about climate change is dependent on its far-reaching consequences on the global system. With the changing climatic conditions, the world is now home to hotter temperature having 2011-2022 as the warmest years in world records, incessant floods due to rising sea level, and overwhelming health hazards. Taraba State is among the states in Nigeria that has been experiencing incessant floods which has submerged and sweep away numerous rural agrarian based communities, farm land, crops, communities, forced displacement of people, exacerbate hunger and starvation, and disruption of means of livelihoods. The State houses three major tributaries and River Benue with international link to Lagdo Dam in Cameroon. These bodies of rivers have caused serial flooding with huge displacement. The displaced communities have their means of livelihoods dis-articulated. The hope on government to provide humanitarian support and find lasting solution to the problem has not yielded sustainable result over the years. What then has been the curbing strategies adopted by these displaced victims of flood in Taraba State? What can be done to restore their dis-articulated means of livelihood after self-returned or resettlement? Can the perennial flood be mitigated? These trajectories define the focus of this study and subsequent contributions to body of knowledge.