NORTHCODE Ghana, held a two days stakeholders forum on farmer header conflicts in the Bole district.
Speaking to Yagbon News after the program, Mr. Sabie Naah Aiden, the Training Officer of NORTHCODE Ghana, noted that the two days workshop is to build the capacity of stakeholders in Mandari and Insinua so they can come together to look at the challenges facing cattle herders, cattle owners and farmers.
The KAPOK Project is Funded by Robert Bosch Foundation in Germany through Conciliation Resources in the UK and implemented by NORTHCODE Ghana
The training officer, added that they are the only people who can find solutions to these problems and the two days program is to let them delve into the root causes of herders and farmers.
So they have come out with a road map as to how to engage and come together and analyze the problems on the daily basis and then resolve issues and the come up.
” I agree that the next ten years herder farmer conflict will be the major concern of our country through out and our research has shown that with the exception of Western North and Western region even Greater Accra is beginning to experience herder farmer conflict” he said.
Mr. Sobie Naah, mentioned that as an NGO they will rather go to the grass root way and so when they come together like this they know what can work and what cannot be worked.
He added that at the end of program they will look at certain key actions that stakeholders think they could take up and hopefully, as they take them through and so they can work together on the issues of herder farmer conflict
At the end of the two days workshop participants proposed setting up Farmer- Herder Livelihoods Committees, (FARHLCOMs) in all communities experiencing farmer herder tensions.
Source: Diwura Abdul Fataw
