The paper highlights the historical development of grazing reserves in Nigeria, the recent violent clashes between pastoralists and farmers taking into consideration the effects of grazing on land, causes and consequences of farmer-pastoralist conflicts and the adequacy of grazing laws. The paper contends that the Grazing Reserve Law 1965 applicable only to States in Northern part of Nigeria have not adequately curb the incessant clashes between pastoralists and farmers and that some provisions of the National Grazing Reserve (Establishment) Bill 2016 conflict with farmers’ inalienable right to property as entrenched in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) and protection of propriety rights in land under the Land Use Act. The paper concludes by stating unambiguously that for lasting peace to reign between farmers and pastoralists. States should enact anti-grazing laws has done by Ekiti State which brought relative peace between pastoralists and farmers in the State.

本文着重介绍了尼日利亚放牧储备的历史发展，牧民和农民之间最近发生的暴力冲突，其中考虑了放牧对土地的影响，农牧民冲突的起因和后果以及放牧法律的充分性。该文件认为，仅适用于尼日利亚北部各州的1965年《放牧储备法》未能充分遏制牧民与农民之间不断发生的冲突，《 2016年国家放牧储备（编制）法案》中的某些规定与农民享有的不可剥夺的耕作权相抵触。尼日利亚《 1999年宪法》（经修订）中确立的财产和根据《土地使用法》保护土地所有权的权利。最后，本文明确指出，要在农民和牧民之间保持持久的和平。