Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationMacalester Collegeen
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Banken
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of California San Diegoen
cg.contributor.initiativeFragility, Conflict, and Migration
cg.contributor.programAcceleratorFood Frontiers and Security
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionNorthern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.creator.identifierJeffrey Bloem: 0000-0002-4995-3043en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103512en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Uniten
cg.identifier.publicationRankA Plusen
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0304-3878en
cg.journalJournal of Development Economicsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactAreaPoverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs
cg.subject.impactPlatformGender
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
cg.volume176en
dc.contributor.authorBloem, Jeffrey R.en
dc.contributor.authorDamon, Amyen
dc.contributor.authorFrancis, David C.en
dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Harrisonen
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-22T15:31:48Zen
dc.date.available2025-04-22T15:31:48Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174285
dc.titleHerder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural householdsen
dcterms.abstractViolent conflict between nomadic herders and settled agricultural communities in Nigeria occurs as both groups clash over the use of land and natural resources, in part, due to a changing climate. We generate theory and evidence to study the labor responses of individuals within agricultural households to herder-related violence and consider a “shadow of violence” mechanism, whereby previous exposure to a violent event alters labor responses to a recent event. Using panel data from 2010 through 2019, we highlight how exposure to violence can lead to differing responses in the planting or harvest seasons and among men or women. In the planting season, among both men and women living in households with no previous exposure to herder-related violence, we find that exposure (i.e., singular exposure) leads to a reduction in household enterprise work, but among households with previous exposure experience, exposure (i.e., repeated exposure) leads to an increase in household enterprise work. Meanwhile, repeated exposure to herder-related violence reduces agricultural work among men only. This leads total hours worked to decline in response to singular exposure and to increase in response to repeated exposure especially among women. In the harvest season, we find that singular exposure increases agricultural work among both men and women, but repeated exposure reduces agricultural work among men only. JEL Codes: E26, E29, I31, Q12en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.available2025-04-21en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBloem, Jeffrey R.; Damon, Amy; Francis, David C.; and Mitchell, Harrison. 2025. Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households. Journal of Development Economics 176(September 2025): 103512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103512en
dcterms.issued2025-09en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectconflictsen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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