Communal Conflicts and Agricultural Development Programmes Implementation in the North-East Geo-political Zone of Nigeria

Abstract

This article views communal conflicts which are capable of hindering agricultural development programmes from implementation in the North-East Geo-Political Zone of Nigeria. The region is bedeviled with series of protracted communal conflicts, ranging from herders-farmers’ bloody clashes, political conflicts, religious conflicts, ethnic conflicts and the Boko Haram crisis. These conflicts have affected the growth and development of the region and a spillover in Nigeria. The article ventures and explore the possible causes of communal conflicts, highlights the agricultural programs in the region and the solutions which centers on government intervention with the appropriate machineries and policies in order to put an end to this bloody conflict with the aim to strengthen the economic activities and development in the region, Nigeria and Africa in general. Conflict theory was used to explain the article.