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Agricultural sustainability in Northern Nigeria requires flexibility in both ecological management as well as economic activity. [1] The population densities of the rural area in this region climbed from 243 to 348 people per square kilometer between 1962 and 1991, but the land area under permanent cultivation remained approximately the same. [1]
A farmer and his cow. The majority of herders in African countries are livestock owners. Livestock farming is a part of Nigeria's agriculture system. In 2017, Nigeria had approximately over 80 million poultry farming, 76 million goats, 43.4 million sheep, 18.4 million cattle, 7.5 million pigs, and 1.4 million of its equivalent. [26]
Drought is a phenomenon that occurs in Nigeria and impacts the whole nation. The arid and semiarid regions are more sensitive than the dryer south, but the degree of vulnerability varies. In Northern Nigeria, there are several records of drought occurrences that resulted in famines in the years 1914, 1924, 1935, 1943, 1951–1954, 1972–1973 ...
Climate Change in Nigeria is evident from temperature increase, rainfall variability (increasing in coastal areas and decline in continental areas). It is also reflected in drought, desertification, rising sea levels, erosion, floods, thunderstorms, bush fires, landslides, land degradation, more frequent, extreme weather conditions and loss of ...
Herders (mostly Muslims) Fulani herders. Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria are a series of disputes over arable land resources across Nigeria between the mostly-Muslim Fulani herders and the mostly-Christian non-Fulani farmers. The conflicts have been especially prominent in the Middle Belt (North Central) since the return of democracy in 1999.
Kano River Project is a modern integrated agricultural land use development in Northern Nigeria. River Kano also locally called Kogin Kano. The project is a large scale irrigation project developed under the authority of Hadejia-Juma’are River Basin Development Authority. [ 1] The project was started in 1971, and the initial research was ...
Media-based agricultural information and i its influence on farm investment decisions in Michika area of Adamawa State, Nigeria. Asian Pacific Journal of Rural Development (APJORD). 17(2):61-66. [7] Rahman, S.A. (2008). Women's involvement in agriculture in northern and southern Kaduna State, Nigeria. Journal of Gender Studies, 17, 17 - 26. [8]
Northern Nigeria though an ethnically and religiously diverse region, is an overwhelmingly majority Muslim region. The Hausa, Fulani and Kanuri dominate much of the North Western and Eastern part of the country while the Yoruba, Nupe, Tiv, Igala and Idoma are dominant in the North Central. Hausa, Fulani, Nupe and the Kanuri people are chiefly ...