Farmers Socio-economic Factors Influencing Resource use Conflicts in a Typical Fadama Area in Nigeria: A Focus on Bauchi State

Sulaiman, Abdullahi Adamu; Ja`afar-Fu, M.R.; Nasiru, M.; Haruna, U.; Ochi, J E

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“…This sort of conflicts has existed since the inception of crop production and rearing of animals. Both the farmer and the pastoralist start engaging their children into their respective occupation as early as teenagers (Sulaiman et al, 2011). With the contemporary increasing demand for food and shelter for the growing booming population, both famers and pastoralists increased their respective activities" intensity and frequency for better economic return depending on their relative geographic location.…”

Section: Inception Of Farmers and Pastoralists Conflicts In Nigeriamentioning

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“…However, the improvements in human health and population have enhanced a much greater pressure on land. Since 1980s, there has been significant expansion in cultivation of crops by both rain-fed and irrigation or "fadama" (reverine and valley-bottom) (Sulaiman et al, 2011). This means that both the farmers and pastoralists have engaged in fierce struggles in gaining greater access to common land.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nigerian farmers in most cases are the local indigenous population which their farmland productivity, safety, security and development are paramount. Farmers" claim for greater access to common land resource and the likes bring the controversial issue of increasing agitation for control, trespassing and encroachment of rights of others (Sulaiman et al, 2011). However, the survival and struggles between or amongst communities are largely on economical motive than equity.…”

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“…Land resource is at the centre of both the pastoralists and farmers welfare which can be aggressively access and converted flexibly depending on the need and utilization pattern, climatic conditions as well as land cover use pattern (Fukui and Turton, 1979;Odoh and Chigozie, 2012;Benjaminsen et al, 2012). Common land resource is not a fixed asset, can easily be influence with specific utilization and accessibility pattern (Sulaiman et al, 2011). This study found that most of the local populous exercise no restraints in individual or collective effort in protection, security and safety of their respective common land resources.…”

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“…However, the conflicts between Fulani pastoralists and farmers in Northern Nigeria are essentially economic in nature, irrespective of the religious, cultural and political colourations that might be diluted to advance certain objectives. However, various studies have attempted to determine several issues regarding these sorts of conflicts, for instances; assessing the primary causes of these violent conflicts (Butler, 2012;Okoli and Atelhe, 2014), cattle rustling (Bashir, 2014;Manu, 2014;Olaniyan and Yahaya, 2016), economic implication of violent conflicts (Sulaiman et al, 2011;Kwaja, 2014;McDougal et al, 2015), growing depletion of common resource (Markakis, 1993;Ladan, 2014), Socio-Political implication of these violent conflicts (Mkutu, 2008;Greiner, 2013;Okoli and Atelhe, 2014), security challenges regarding the farmers-pastoralists conflicts (Ofuoku and Isifie, 2009;Higazi, 2013) and the implication of climate change and these violent conflicts (Hendrix and Glaser, 2007;Odoh and Chigozie, 2012;Benjaminsen et al, 2012). Even with these plentiful contributions of various relative literatures regarding farmers-pastoralists conflicts in Nigeria, there are various misconceptions that need to be efficiently comprehended with possible maximum precision for peaceful coexistence between land resource user-groups.…”

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Occupational Politics Myths and Realities in Nigeria: A Case of Farmers-Pastoralists Conflicts

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Nigeria is faced with incessant conflicts largely associated with key common land resource users (farmers and pastoralists). Recently, ceaseless eruption of violent conflicts between farmers-pastoralists is closely associated with common land resource equitable access, especially over farmland trespassing, conversion of grazing reserves and routes. As both farmers and pastoralists have coexisted for a long time, the complexities over the land-use system have dramatically changed. These sorts of conflicts are highly characterized with loss lives, destructions of properties, cattle theft, destructions of farmlands, etc. The present study has attempted to examine some common allegations as well as unveiling the realities regarding these recent occupational conflicts in Nigeria. This is empirical study that is qualitative in nature which depends on both primary and secondary data. However, the primary data collected were collected through focus group discussions whereas the secondary data were generated from both published as well as unpublished governmental, non-governmental, peer reviewed studies, etc. This study revealed that curtailing these conflicts require proper understanding of various common allegations, accusations and realities by both common resource patrons as well as their respective authorities. These misconceptions that needed to be properly understood include; the fear of marginalisation and loss of identity, growing demands for food and shelter, illiteracy, inequitable common resource access, notion of indigenes and settlers, ethno-religious affiliations of these conflicts, cattle rustling, conversion of grazing routes, farmland trespassing, etc. The understanding of these allegations and realities will provide necessary background towards proposing appropriate modalities for curbing these conflicts from key patron perspectives. Lastly, the study suggested the adoption of user inclusive participatory institutional arrangement and provisions by all tiers of Government through heavy fine and sections.

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Section: Inception Of Farmers and Pastoralists Conflicts In Nigeriamentioning

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The Effect of Farmer-Pastoralist Violence on State-Level Internal Revenue Generation in Nigeria: A Modified Synthetic Control Analysis Approach

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Nigeria’s ethnically and religiously diverse Middle Belt has experienced recurrent eruptions of violence over the past several decades. Disputes between pastoralists and farmers arise from disagreements over access to farmland, grazing areas, stock routes, and water points for both animals and households. Although relatively low in intensity, this form of violence is widespread, persistent, and arguably increasing in its incidence. This study seeks to answer the question: How has farmer-pastoralist conflict affected state internally-generated revenues (IGR)? The literature on the effect of violence on sub-national fiscal capacity is slim to none. We use a synthetic control approach to model how IGR for four conflict-affected states – Benue, Kaduna, Nasarawa, and Plateau – would have developed in the absence of violence. To account for the endogeneity criticism commonly leveled at such synthetic control analyses, we then use a fixed-effects IV model to estimate IGR losses predicted by the synthetic control analysis as a function of farmer-pastoralist fatalities. Our conservative estimates for percentage reduction to annual state IGR growth for the four states are 0%, 1.2%, 2.6%, and 12.1% respectively, implying that IGR is likely much more sensitive to conflict than GDP. In total, the four study states of Benue, Kaduna, Nasarawa, and Plateau are estimated to have lost between US$719,000 and US$2.3 million in 2010 US dollars, or 22–47% of their potential IGR collection during the period of intense.

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Farmers Socio-economic Factors Influencing Resource use Conflicts in a Typical Fadama Area in Nigeria: A Focus on Bauchi State

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The Effect of Farmer-Pastoralist Violence on State-Level Internal Revenue Generation in Nigeria: A Modified Synthetic Control Analysis Approach

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