cover image: Analysis of insecurity shocks and farmers’ resilience in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria

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Analysis of insecurity shocks and farmers’ resilience in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria

2 Aug 2017

Agricultural activities in the region are infestation of pests and weeds, changes in the displaced for oil production since after the salinity and temperature of the ocean, discovery of crude oil in the region. [...] But in 2016, the number and cases of 46.3% in the 2010-2011 period and 44.9% in kidnapping and militant groups are so many to the 2012-2013 period with poverty rates of count. [...] 4 Oil-Company/Community Motivated by factors such as delay Community youths and chiefs Conflict in the payment of compensation engaged in a struggle for for damage on property, breach of access and equitable share of Memorandum of Understanding by oil benefits and security the oil companies and the personnel invited by the oil patronage of community factions companies to maintain order. [...] However, youth restiveness has led to disruption of agricultural 1.8 Shocks, Consequences of Crises in the activities and thus low productivity, ethnic Niger Delta, Nigeria hostilities, fleeing of prospective investors and Shocks are sudden events that impact the developers in the region, break of law and vulnerability of the system and its components. [...] Resilience has needed to enhance the ability of individuals, thus become central to the European households and production systems to recover Commission‟s reflection on development, from the impact of shocks and stresses on the particularly in the context of reducing small Agriculture sector occasioned by the changing producers‟ vulnerability to food crises.

Authors

Anthony Onoja

Pages
15
Published in
Canada