LAND AS A CAUSE OF DISPUTES: THE CASES OF WESTERN BAHR EL GHAZAL, SOUTH SUDAN AND TRIBAL AREA OF WAYANAD KERALA, INDIA

Wurok Chan Malith
Land conflict migrants landlessness agitation and livelihood Sociology

Abstract

In the case of Western Bahr el Ghazal, the land conflict steadfastly transpired in
the town due to continuous land grabbing which is currently sparked by the advent of
migrants, IDPs, and settlers who spontaneously, settled in the area. Furthermore, the
conflict over land is arepercussion of conspicuous annexations of the villages around
the town, owing to the expansion of the town. However, the seasonal migration of the
armed pastoralists with theircattle from their areas into farmers’ areas is usually,
culminated in skirmishes between the two groups and led to gruesomeramifications.
The land issue has, unfortunately, taken two dimensions, the dispute betweenfarmers,
and cattle keepers is arecurring woein thedry season, due to the cattle subversive of
crops in the farmer’s‘farms. This is in addition to the new settlers, migrants, and IDPs
who grab the land.Howeverin Wayanad Tribal area in Kerala,land remains an enormous
challenge to tribal settlement as tribal people face landlessness owing to the dearthof
enough land for residential as most of the tribalcolonies are very congested.
Consequently, the family is growing, the land is limited which foists arduous and
ginormous conundrum and led to many tribal agitations demanding enough land forresidentialand livelihood through cultivation. As such owing to the previous
agitations, thelandhas been allotted by the government to those who had have
participated inagitations,but still,there is a significant number of tribal floundering
landlessness. As such land reform is utterly incontrovertible which should address the
exigent hurdle of landlessness.

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