Tor A Benjaminsen is professor at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is author of the chapter ‘Does Climate Change Lead to Conflicts in the Sahel?’ from the book ‘The End of Desertification? Disputing Environmental Change in tbe Drylands’ published by Springer in 2016: [http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783642160134]