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Nigeria: Project Highlights - OSRO/NIR/107/IRE

Emergency agricultural assistance to communities affected by farmer-herder conflicts in northwestern Nigeria

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 1 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) The Government of Ireland has contributed EUR 442 000 to FAO’s project entitled “Emergency agricultural assistance to communities affected by farmer-herder conflicts in northwestern Nigeria”. The project was implemented from 24 February 2022 to 23 August 2023 and aimed at enhancing community-based mechanisms for natural resource management and increasing access to improved crops and livestock inputs of conflict-affected farmers and herders. In total, 1 650 households (about 11 550 people) benefited from the project’s support including the distribution of seeds and goats kits, the establishment of Agropastoral Field Schools, and the mapping of natural resources, thus improving households' food availibilty, diversifying their livelihoods and developing a framework basis for conflict resolution mechanism.

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