Too many people, too little land

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Herder with cattle in a cotton field in Katsina State in December, 2008. (Fred de Sam Lazaro/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting)
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Farmers in the village of 'Yardanko in Nigeria's northern Katsina State after their crops were destroyed by nomadic herders. (David Hecht/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting)
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Ardo Rabo is the chief of Fulani village nearby 'Yardanko who said the recent fighting between Fulani cattle herders and Hausa crop farmers is further provoked by hoodlums. (David Hecht/ Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting)
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A Fulani boy herds cattle in central Nigeria, June 8, 2006. (Mike Blyth/Creative Commons)
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