International Research Journal of Education and Technology

The central focus of this study was to carry out an empirical survey of farmers-nomadic cattle herders’ conflict in Cross River and Benue States, Nigeria: A proposal on achieving a sustainable lasting solution. The research design used was the survey research design with a population of the study consisting of all assessable communal farmers and nomadic cattle headers in some selected Local Government areas in Cross River and Benue State, Nigeria. Totaling 6, 325. The sampling technique adopted for this study was the purposive sampling technique. This technique was considered appropriate in the study.  The sample size of the study was three hundred and ten (310) respondents drawn from ten (10) communities in Cross River and Benue states, namely Odukpani, Yala, Ogoja, Abi,  Otukpa, Gboko, Katsina-ala, Obi, Otukpo, and Ugbokolo. The instrument used for data collection was the mixed-method questionnaire. The instrument was developed by the researcher. The questionnaire contained two sections A and B. Section A was designed to elicit information from respondents’ demographic variables such name of LGA and community, while section B is a 20-item four points Likert-type scale designed to measure the sub-variables of the study. Each item required the respondent to indicate the frequency of his or her various opinions under strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree. The two kinds of validation were established for the instrument of the study face and content validity. The face validity was established by using three (3) experts. Reliability was established through Cronbach alpha reliability of the instrument (questionnaire), a trial testing was done using thirty (30) farmers-nomads with Cronbach alpha reliability was conducted and the internal consistency of 0.66 - 0.71 showed that the research instrument was reliable. The hypotheses formulated to guide the study were appropriately tested using a population t-test. the findings revealed that the growing population of farmers-nomadic cattle herders is significantly high. Also, greater insecurity among farmers-nomadic cattle herders is significantly serious and climate change among farmers-nomadic cattle herders is significantly high.   It was recommended among others that government should enact policies that will prevent the growing population of farmers-nomadic cattle herders. This will help to reduce the overpopulation of headers in most communities in Cross River and Benue States, Nigeria.

Keywords: Farmers, Herdsmen, Crises, Sustainable, Lasting solution.

Keywords: Farmers, Herdsmen, Crises, Sustainable, Lasting solution.