Abstract
Food security is a basic
requirement of every society. Thus, nations invest heavily in the agricultural
sector of the economy to enhance food production, with the view to safeguarding
their citizens from hunger and malnutrition. Notwithstanding, less than 10
years to end hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition, the world
is not on track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal two of zero hunger by
2030. This setback is as a result of climate variability, and conflicts, these
threats continued to affect food production and subsequently availability of
food. This study assessed the extent of
the effect of farmer-herder conflicts on food availability and accessibility in
Adamawa state. The study relied on both primary and secondary data for
analysis. Food Availability Decline (FAD) by Thomas Malthus 1787 and Food
Entitlement Model (FEM) propounded by Amartya Sen 1981 was employed as a
theoretical foundation for the study. The study revealed that, the farmer-herder
conflicts have negative and significant effect on food availability and
accessibility in Adamawa state. Therefore, the study recommends that, Adamawa
state should stimulate accelerated investment on biotechnological methods,
agricultural research to assure food availability and to tackle food. The state
government should introduce special schemes as an entitlement like conditional
cash transfer and Save a Million programme, taking cue from the postulation of
the Food Entitlement (FEM) theory, for those who are deprived of access to food,
especially due to low capability or loss of livelihood.
DOI: www.doi.org/10.36349/fujpam.2024.v3i02.005
author/Joshua, R.M., Anyebe, A.A., Isa, M.K. & Abubakar, F.
journal/FUJPAM Vol. 3, No. 2
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