Planning and Management of Nomadic Herders and Farmers Conflicts: A Panacea to Food Security Threat in Oke-Ogun Region of Oyo State
| Main Author: | Kayode Kunle Oyediran |
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| Format: | Book publication-section Journal |
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Book Publisher International
, 2021
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/5137715 |
Daftar Isi:
- The importance of food to life qualifies it to be one of the Sustainable Development Goals. As important as it is, farmers in the Oke-Ogun region of Oyo state had experienced series of nomadic herders’ attacks. This serves as a threat to food security in the region that is known to be the “food basket” of the state. In preventing and managing the conflicts between the nomadic herders and farmers, it is imperative to examine: The source of food in the region; level/nature of attacks; steps taken to prevent or/and control the conflicts; and effect of nomadic herders’ attack on farmers and food security. This study adopted the frustration-aggression theory to explain the cause of conflicts between the two parties. Primary and secondary data were adopted; primary data were sourced through the use of questionnaire, oral interview and observation; secondary data were sourced from journals, textbooks, newspapers and online organizational publications; and the sampling technique adopted was multi-staged random sampling. Findings revealed that most (75.43%) of the food in this region was self-produced; access/size to farmland determines the volume food production; and large number of farmers (78.0%) can no longer farm away from the main towns and backyard of their villages because of the fear of being attacked. The chapter was concluded by recommending that animal tracks should be included in the rural land uses; zoning of the different rural land uses; advocacy planning is also recommended; and barriers such as fencing with bamboo/other trees or digging of ditches round the farms should be encouraged.