en public specific orginal article <div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Background</span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">: The frequent conflict between nomads and farmers has been recently a major challenge in Nigeria, resulting in a huge economic setback which may have serious consequences on food security in Nigeria. There are limited studies linking to food security; hence, this study aims to examine the effect of the nomad&ndash;farmer conflict on food security among arable crop farmers in Iwajowa, Oyo State, Nigeria. <b>Methods:</b> Primary data was used for the study. A semi-structured questionnaire was employed to collect data from 150 arable crop farmers through a multistage sampling procedure from two wards and three villages, which were randomly selected. The food security index (FSI) and Logit regression model were used for data analysis. <b>Results:</b> The result revealed that the majority (74.67%) of the arable crop farmers were affected by the nomad-farmer conflict. Most of the arable crop farmers (54.00%) were food insecure. The factors that predisposed the arable crop farmers to being affected by the conflict were access to water point, land tenure system<span style="color:black">, bush burning, and years of education at</span> <span style="color:black">different levels. </span>Being affected by the nomad&ndash;farmer conflict caused food insecurity along with age, sex, and household size. <b>Conclusion: </b>It was therefore concluded that arable crop farmers in the study area were mostly affected by the nomad-conflicts that influence food insecurity. Policy measures by the government aimed at reducing the conflict between arable crop farmers and nomads should include water supply and increasing farmers&rsquo; years of education</span></span></span></div> Nomad-Farmer conflict, Food security, Access to water points, Arable crop farmers 189 201 http://jnfs.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-405-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ogheneruemu Obi-Egbedi gheneobi@gmail.com 0000-0002-0778-7251 Yes Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Abiodun E. Awoyemi 0000-0002-3797-9174 No Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana. Alphonsus O. Ehinlomo No Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria