Name : Umar Muhammed
Reg. No: U15MM2014
Clashes between herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria should not be allowed to generate more intemperate statements. Government must come out with a solution which will deal with the problems to integrate the herdsmen fully into the Nigerian society. This should therefore, be on modernization of cattle rearing to maximize the benefits in terms of job creation, food security etc. which will eventually end the vexatious farmers/herdmens conflicts. Fulani herdmens and farmers conflicts have remained the most predominately resource use conflict in Northern – eastern Nigeria. The study to exacerbate the insecurity and food crisis particularly rural communities where most of the conflict are localized describes the traditional relationship between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in the incessant resource conflicts witnessed in Nigeria and how it affects livehood security of those involved.
Nigeria has to plan towards the transformation of pastorialism into settled forms of animal husbandry. The establishment of grazing reserves provides the opportunity for practicing a more limited form of pastoralism and is therefore a pathway towards a more select form of animal husbandry. The violence between herdsmen and farmers has grown and developed into criminality and rural banditry, popular narrative creating meaning, context and misunderstandings have been emerging. The protagonists here are often presented as being normadic Fulani cattle herders, who are often presented as being normadic Fulani cattle herders, who are mostly muslims, and sedentary farmers communities of several other ethnic extraditions who are often, but not always non-muslims. These two distinct groups are usually depicted as perpetrators and victims respectively.
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