Re-thinking Rural Land Conflict and the Narrative of Food Security in the Development of South East, Nigeria

This study examined the effects of rural land conflict on teaching and learning of new narrative for food security and development in Southeast of Nigeria. The study evaluated the challenges posed by customary system, population growth, political interference, climate change in relation to food security of rural land conflict. The study employed mixed approaches of qualitative and quantitative to collect data. Primary sources such as questionnaire and observation as well as secondary source; interview, key informants, published materials, documentaries, textbooks, library, journals and internet materials well also employed. The Relative Deprivation Theory was used. The longitudinal design was also adopted for the study. The analyses of data collected from instrument of questionnaire were done through the use of descriptive statistics such as, simple percentages, and contingency tables. The study discovered that there is strong nexus between rural land conflict and food security. Rural land conflict remains pervasive and a threat not only to food security but to regional development of South East of Nigeria. The study recommended a new narrative policy option of teaching and learning from primary to tertiary institutions such as farm bagging and introduction of digitalized solar irrigation on tuber crops, vegetables, fruits etc. as well as animal husbandry to reduce struggle for shrinking space of rural land on agricultural activities to avert incompatibilities and high resurgences that are unhealthy to industrialization in the region.