Cattle logic and capital logic: the recalcitrance of transhumance in the establishment of private grazing lands in North West Nigeria

• Published in: GeoJournal 2024-06, Vol.89 (4), p.138, Article 138
• Main Authors: Oladele, O. I., Yakubu, Danlami, Oladele, O. J.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Academic achievement; Attitudes; Cattle; Cattle production; Credit; Environmental Management; Farmers; Geography; Grazing; Human Geography; Livelihoods; Livestock; Livestock farming; Local government; Logic; Marital status; Pastoralism; Principal components analysis; Rangelands; Resource utilization; Sampling; Sampling methods; Social Sciences; Suitability; Transformation; Variance; Willingness
• ISSN: 1572-9893; 0343-2521; 1572-9893
• DOI: 10.1007/s10708-024-10995-x

Livelihoods associated with transhumance cattle production are increasingly decimated and threatened by serious loss of human lives due to increasing competition for resources as driven by cattle logic and capital logic, thus the plan and drive for livestock transformation have been subjected to the recalcitrance of transhumance in Nigeria. This study examined cattle farmers’ willingness and attitude towards the establishment of private grazing lands in Sokoto State Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 457 cattle farmers from 10 Local Government Areas of Sokoto State, from which data were collected through a structured questionnaire and subjected to frequency counts, percentages, mean and standard deviation, Probit regression, and Principal component analysis. The results revealed that cattle farmers have unfavorable attitudes and are unwilling to establish private grazing lands. The determinants of cattle farmers’ willingness and attitude to the establishment of grazing lands overlap and include age (t = 1.97; p