Farmer-Herder Clashes: Experts push community-led solutions as farming season begins

With the onset of the farming play and renewed fears of clashes betwixt farmers and herders, stakeholders person called for stronger community-based struggle solution mechanisms to forestall disputes from escalating into unit crossed agrarian communities successful Niger State.

The telephone was made successful Minna during a struggle solution grooming organised by the Federal Government/International Fund for Agricultural Development, FG/IFAD, nether the Value Chain Development Programme, VCDP, done the Commodity Alliance Forum, CAF, successful Minna for leaders from the programme’s 9 participating section authorities areas.

Speaking astatine the event, Director of the Abdulsalami Abubakar Institute for Peace and Sustainable Development Studies, AAIPSDS, Dr Diamond Preye Nebechukwu, said conflicts successful agrarian communities are becoming much analyzable and widen beyond farmer-herder disputes.

She identified clime change, insecurity, migration, unit connected constricted land, disappearing grazing routes, onshore ownership dis...