…being killed, displaced and dispossessed. “If the Federal Government wants to modernise livestock production, it should encourage livestock owners to establish ranches on land lawfully acquired for that purpose, rather than seek to annex ancestral land belonging to farming communities to be carved out for government-es…

…participants raised concerns about the potential effects of large-scale industrial livestock production on food-system self-reliance, smallholder farmers and host communities. They identified possible risks, including land-use conflicts, displacement, waste generation, groundwater contamination, air pollution, biodiver…

…(SEC) has approved projects and programmes worth over ₦9 billion aimed at boosting livestock production, workers' welfare, healthcare delivery and education sector. The approvals were made at the council meeting presided over by Governor Mallam Umar Namadi. The resolutions were contained in a statement by the Commissio…

…scheme that could heighten tension nationwide. The central problem is not whether livestock production should be modernised. It should. The problem is the repeated assumption that the burden of adjustment must fall on communities that did not invite it, did not consent to it, and may already have planned their land for…