Explaining transhumance-related violence: Fulani Ethnic Militia in rural Nigeria

George, Justin; Adelaja, Adesoji O.; Vaughan, Olufemi; Awokuse, Titus O.

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.12.003

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“…Although many studies have been conducted on pastoral conflicts in Nigeria (e.g. George et al 2022;Nnaji et al , 2022aChukwuma 2020;Ajala 2020;Vanger and Nwosu 2020), none has, to the best of my knowledge, empirically examined the effect that these conflicts have on trust, and the conditions under which these conflicts (which are primarily about competition over land and water resources) turn religious. Southern Region to conduct a counterfactual regression analysis to enhance the robustness of my results.…”

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Pastoral Conflicts and (Dis)Trust: Evidence from Nigeria Using An Instrumental Variable Approach

Tuki

2023

SSRN Journal

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Pastoral Conflicts and (Dis)Trust: Evidence from Nigeria Using An Instrumental Variable Approach

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2023

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“…Conflicts between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers have been a recurring phenomenon in Nigeria in the last decade. Such conflicts have sometimes escalated to large proportions, leading to the death of many people in the nations' NorthWestern and North-Central regions (Amnesty International, 2021;George et al, 2022;International Crisis Group, 2021, 2018Njoku et al, 2023;Ukamaka et al, 2016). For instance, in the first half of the year 2018, the report has it that more than 1,300 people were killed in clashes involving herders and farmers in different parts of Nigeria, especially in the Middle Belt, where hostilities between the two groups had reached alarming proportions.…”

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State responses to herder–farmers conflict and peace-building in rural grazing areas of Nigeria

Muhammed,

Adisa,

Ayodele

et al. 2023

JACPR

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Purpose Conflicts between herders and farmers in Nigeria in the last five years have been destructive to the corporate existence of Nigerian society and the Nigerian State, especially in Northcentral, Northwestern and Southern Nigeria. This paper aims to investigate the relationships between state responses and peace-building in rural grazing communities in Nigeria using a National Survey on Peace-building in Nigeria conducted by this team using a cross-sectional survey of 1,711 farmers and herders. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted the political economy of the herder–farmers conflict in Africa to contextualise the problem. Data generated from the study were analysed using chi-square test and binary logistic regression model. Findings The results showed that protection of victims of herder–farmers conflict (P = 0.024), blockage of sources of illicit weapons (P = 0.000), arrest of leaders (P = 0.043), provision of shelter (P = 0.030), provision of food (P = 0.037), protection of women from sexual exploitation and abuse (P = 0.019) and use of the media were positively related to peace-building in the rural grazing areas. The study further found that when the Federal Government (ß= 0.452, P = 0.018), State Government (ß= 0.522, P = 0.018), private individuals (ß = 0.855, P = 0.000) and cooperative societies (ß = 0.744, P = 0.021) established ranches, peace was likely to be guaranteed as opposed to where herders (ß= –0.355, P= 0.029) were allowed to establish ranches in the rural grazing communities in Nigeria implying that the Federal and State Government must be cautious in the implementation of the Livestock Transformation Plans not to create an impression that it is designed to favour the herders. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is original and the paper has not been submitted to any journal.

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“…In response, herders fight back, and FH conflicts occur (Blench 2010;Dimelu, Salifu, Chah et al 2017). Although conflicts between herders and farmers have been ongoing historically (Mbih 2020), their frequency and intensity are increasing (George et al 2022). These conflicts directly influence rural households' food insecurity because of their direct impacts on the ability to cultivate land the herders want to access and/or to access food via markets.…”

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“…Majority of these nomadic Fulani herders being Muslim and sedentary farming communities being Christian also incorporate an ethnoreligious hostility in their interactions (A. Usman 2019a). Recently, the situation has been intensified by collective conflicts between sedentary farming communities (mostly mainly Christian and non-Fulani ethnic groups) and non-sedentary herders (mainly Muslim Fulani populace) over land claims, community resource distribution, and control of local administrative authorities (George et al 2022;Vaughan 2016). The current land tenure system exampled by communal access to land, insecure private property rights, expensive land administration costs, and the resulting lack of access to formal land titles further exacerbate the situation (Vanger and Nwosu 2020).…”

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“…The current land tenure system exampled by communal access to land, insecure private property rights, expensive land administration costs, and the resulting lack of access to formal land titles further exacerbate the situation (Vanger and Nwosu 2020). Second, the increasing terrorist insurgency of Boko Haram in the north-eastern region has led to the forced displacement and increased migration of individuals towards the southern region George et al 2022). Invariably, this places increased pressure on scarce resources resulting in inadequate land resources.…”

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Farmer-herder conflicts and food insecurity: Evidence from rural Nigeria

Nnaji

Ratna

et al. 2022

Agric. Resour. Econom. Rev.

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Food security in many developing countries has been threatened by several factors such as unequal land distribution, ineffective land reform policies, inefficient agricultural value chains, and an increasing number of climate disasters. In Nigeria, these threats are exacerbated by rapid population growth and extreme weather events, which have resulted in farmer-herder conflicts in most agrarian communities. This paper examines the differential impacts of the incidence and severity of farmer-herder resource use conflicts on food insecurity of rural households in Nigeria. We employ a two-stage predictor substitution model to estimate survey data collected from 401 rural households in Nigeria. The empirical results show that both the incidence and the severity of farmer-herder conflicts significantly increase food insecurity, and the severity of these conflicts has a larger impact than their incidence. The estimates of the conditional mixed process models confirm the robustness of our results. Additional analysis reveals that the incidence and severity of farmer-herder conflicts positively and significantly affect food insecurity, measured by the number of days with limited varieties of food eaten. Our findings highlight the importance of policy interventions that address ongoing farmer-herder conflicts in affected countries like Nigeria to enhance food security from a sustainable development perspective.

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Explaining transhumance-related violence: Fulani Ethnic Militia in rural Nigeria

Cited by 18 publications

References 28 publications

Pastoral Conflicts and (Dis)Trust: Evidence from Nigeria Using An Instrumental Variable Approach

Pastoral Conflicts and (Dis)Trust: Evidence from Nigeria Using An Instrumental Variable Approach

State responses to herder–farmers conflict and peace-building in rural grazing areas of Nigeria

Farmer-herder conflicts and food insecurity: Evidence from rural Nigeria

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