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Ending Nigeria's Herder-Farmer Crisis: The Livestock Reform Plan


What’s new? In 2019, Nigerian authorities launched a ten-year National Livestock Transformation Plan to curtail the movement of cattle, boost livestock production and quell the country’s lethal herder-farmer conflict. But inadequate political leadership, delays, funding uncertainties and a lack of expertise could derail the project. COVID-19 has exacerbated the challenges.
Why did it happen? Violence fuelled by environmental degradation and competition over land has aggravated long-running tensions in the country’s northern and central regions. A surge in bloodshed in 2018 prompted Nigeria’s federal government to formulate a far-reaching set of reforms for the livestock sector.
Why does it matter? The new Plan represents Nigeria’s most comprehensive strategy yet to encourage pastoralists to switch to ranching and other sedentary livestock production systems. Modernising the livestock sector is key to resolving the herder-farmer conflict, which threatens Nig ....

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Hounded by agents of death at home, Ogun victims of herders' attacks locate shelter in Benin Republic – Punch Newspapers


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Published 9 March 2021
DAUD OLATUNJI writes on the reported persistent attacks on locals by suspected herdsmen in the Yewa area of Ogun State, which have compelled many residents to flee to neighbouring Benin Republic where they are currently living as refugees
The farmers and herders’ conflicts that started like skirmishes have now become a full blown crisis with attendant loss of lives and property.
In fact, hundreds of residents of Ogun West Senatorial District, otherwise known as the Yewa-Awori axis, have deserted their homes after the invasion and killings by Fulani herdsmen did not abate.
Going down memory lane, the herders-farmers’ clashes have been on for some decades, especially, during the dry season. ....

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