Nigeria, June 18 -- Nigeria's food security is also in jeopardy as Nigeria's breadbasket state, Benue State, is already beset by habitual violence, widespread displacement, and growing instability.

No longer the "food basket of the nation," Benue is now in an open crisis and is fast losing its capacity to contribute a huge amount to Nigeria's food basket.

The last few months have seen numerous instances of brutal attacks, mostly in rural agricultural villages across the state. The attacks, primarily culpable of arms supply to herdsmen against native settlers of the regions, have been guilty of farm burning, murders, and forcing tens of thousands into exile. Spurred by heightened insecurity, some farmers have been forced off their farms ...