Unmanaged Scarcity: The Root Cause of Farmer-Herder Violence in Southwest Nigeria
The farmer-herder conflict, a pressing issue in Southwest Nigeria, has become one of the deadliest conflicts in the country, surpassing even the Boko Haram insurgency in lethality. This urgent situation has prompted scholars to race to explain its roots, with most explanations rooted in Homer-Dixon’s environmental conflict theory (1994; 2010). Dixon views environmental conflict as […]