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Open grazing: A failure of imagination
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Mon May 24 2021
Last week, I saw a short piece titled ‘Why Open Grazing must be Discontinued’ attributed to Tanimu Yakubu Kurfi, former Chief Economic Adviser to President Umaru Musa Yaradua and a great model and mentor of mine. Mr. Kurfi who is an economist, narrated his discovery while serving as a cabinet member of the Katsina State government in 1999 that open grazing was a key factor responsible for destroying vegetative cover in Northern Nigeria and thereby causing desertification. I immediately thought that this is precisely one of the angles of this conflict that most people fail to see. Indeed, open grazing directly results in increased desertification through long-term over grazing, particularly in semiarid rangelands. This is not mentioning the deforestation by lopping branches for use as fodder and felling of trees to make way for pastures as well as the increased greenhouse gas effect through the production of ....

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