Perceptions of injustices in the struggle for scarce critical lands: Farmer-herder conflict and violence escalation in the Benue-Nasarawa borderland
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Farmer-herder conflict; Injustice; Political ecology; Relative deprivation; Resource scarcity;All these keywords.
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