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SUMMARY:‘Farmers-Herders Conflicts\, the Shadow Economy\, and Nigeria's 
 National Question’ - Professor Olutayo Adesina (University of Manchester
 /University of Ibadan)
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CONTACT:Gareth Austin
DESCRIPTION:The major life-altering issues arising from the competition be
 tween two socio-economic groups\, farmers and herders\, in Nigeria highlig
 ht the inadequate management of intergroup relations in a plural society. 
 Over the years\, these disagreements accumulated\, becoming increasingly c
 omplex and divisive. Scholars and analysts have spent decades trying to un
 derstand the contours and complexity of this conflict. These disputes have
  long shaped Nigeria’s intense human security concerns\, food security\,
  politics\, and intergroup relations. While one school of thought holds th
 at the crisis emanated from conflict over grazing land\, others attribute 
 it to the fallout from Nigeria’s national question and geopolitical cons
 iderations. In recent years\, the cross-border criminality dimension has b
 een added to the mix and has intensified significantly. It has been sugges
 ted that\, while rural communities across the country became defenceless a
 gainst the massive infiltration of farmlands by local herders\, the influx
  of foreign cattle herders has transformed what initially began as a clash
  between two socio-economic interest groups into extraterritorial criminal
 ity and a shadow economy. The competing narratives\, the spread of assumpt
 ions\, and conspiracy theories surrounding the farmers-herders’ conflict
 s will form the focus of this work\, which seeks to understand Nigeria’s
  crisis of self-immolation.
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