International Journal of Academic Management Science Research (IJAMSR)   Year: 2019 | Volume: 3 | Issue: 8 | Page No.: 8-14 Environmental and Socio-Economic Implications of Pastoralism in Nigeria: A Threat to Food Security Eneh Max, Prof. Emma Chukwuemeka, Dr. Aloy Aduma Abstract: Pastoralism in recent time has aggravated perceived crisis and attendant threats in Nigeria. The spate of environmental degradation as a result of pastoralist movement in Nigeria have posed a major threat to food security in the country and Africa at Large; due to increasing depletion and erosion of the farm land for cultivation and its continuous deteriorating status of agro -allied climate created by these herders movement. Indiscriminate of lazing of livestock not only destroy crops, but creates other attendant extreme environmental conditions such as deforestation, drought, water pollution which increases incidence of global warming in the country. To this extent the study is poised to identify causes, dynamics and consequences of pastoralism and its attendant environmental and socio-economic implications in Nigeria. Research questions were formulated to guide the study IPSO factor, qualitative and content analysis was relied upon in evaluating the data. However, the finding revealed that the unregulated activities of herders have posed a grave danger to our eco-system, hence huge threat to food security. The study therefore recommends that stick adherence to environmental law and monitoring the activities of herders in Nigeria should be enforced to check and boast food security and other attendance crisis association with these forms of movement.