obnoxious Land Use Act and minerals’ legislations are repealed; the various
contradictions or inconsistencies that deny minorities their age-long ownership
rights are expunged from current legislations including the Constitution.
• While designing any new legal framework on soil or land governance, attention
should be paid to the customary and traditional model of land ownership across
the country.
• An impartial enforcement or implementation of detailed soil governance standards in all tiers of governance, and standards in other regions on uncertain
climatic change and overlapping systems of resource exploitation and access to
land-based natural resources is urgently required in Nigeria.
• A sustainable and responsible land and soil agenda is required to achieve the
SDGs in Nigeria.
• Nigeria needs a comprehensive transformative land or soil object specific legislation that takes into consideration adaptation mechanism to effects of climate
change and power imbalances.
• The sustainable use of natural resources has to be integrated into a participatory
EIA processes and accountability mechanisms based on expected compliance
outcomes to achieve the SDGs which are essentially natural resources based on
soils or land.
• The Nigerian Federal Government must ensure neutrality of all its law enforcement agencies, including the military, engaged in peace keeping or law and order
enforcement on the Fulani Muslim Herdsmen and the indigenous Christian
Ethnic Minority Farmers crises.
• Appropriate accountability mechanisms within the post-2015 Development
Agenda should be encouraged to address the challenges.
• To contribute to the successful implementation of the post-2015 Development
Agenda, the soil governance research pattern needs to change too. Land and soil
governance research must be more systematically conducted in an interdisciplinary manner and must partner with ongoing law reform and transformation
processes.
• Tension prone regions or states should be identified and mapped out, and all
feuding parties (Fulani herdsmen, Christian farmers, howsoever described) must
be disarmed.
• Immediate provision of security to protect lives and property in the conflict areas,
particularly, the Christian farmers’ territories and the peaceful return of Internally
Displaced Persons (IDP) is necessary.
• The establishment and institutionalization of local peace building for negotiation
and conflict resolution must be developed.
• Science based transformative research sensitive to the multi-ethnic cultures of the
Nigerian society needs to be added into the ministerial lines of duties as a basis for
routine engagement in governance design and policy implementation.
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contradictions or inconsistencies that deny minorities their age-long ownership
rights are expunged from current legislations including the Constitution.
• While designing any new legal framework on soil or land governance, attention
should be paid to the customary and traditional model of land ownership across
the country.
• An impartial enforcement or implementation of detailed soil governance standards in all tiers of governance, and standards in other regions on uncertain
climatic change and overlapping systems of resource exploitation and access to
land-based natural resources is urgently required in Nigeria.
• A sustainable and responsible land and soil agenda is required to achieve the
SDGs in Nigeria.
• Nigeria needs a comprehensive transformative land or soil object specific legislation that takes into consideration adaptation mechanism to effects of climate
change and power imbalances.
• The sustainable use of natural resources has to be integrated into a participatory
EIA processes and accountability mechanisms based on expected compliance
outcomes to achieve the SDGs which are essentially natural resources based on
soils or land.
• The Nigerian Federal Government must ensure neutrality of all its law enforcement agencies, including the military, engaged in peace keeping or law and order
enforcement on the Fulani Muslim Herdsmen and the indigenous Christian
Ethnic Minority Farmers crises.
• Appropriate accountability mechanisms within the post-2015 Development
Agenda should be encouraged to address the challenges.
• To contribute to the successful implementation of the post-2015 Development
Agenda, the soil governance research pattern needs to change too. Land and soil
governance research must be more systematically conducted in an interdisciplinary manner and must partner with ongoing law reform and transformation
processes.
• Tension prone regions or states should be identified and mapped out, and all
feuding parties (Fulani herdsmen, Christian farmers, howsoever described) must
be disarmed.
• Immediate provision of security to protect lives and property in the conflict areas,
particularly, the Christian farmers’ territories and the peaceful return of Internally
Displaced Persons (IDP) is necessary.
• The establishment and institutionalization of local peace building for negotiation
and conflict resolution must be developed.
• Science based transformative research sensitive to the multi-ethnic cultures of the
Nigerian society needs to be added into the ministerial lines of duties as a basis for
routine engagement in governance design and policy implementation.
Soil Governance and Sustainable Land Use System in Nigeria: The Paradox of. . .
177