Kofyar people
Their subjugation by the British was largely non-violent until 1930, when a young Assistant District Officer named Barlow was killed in the hill village of Latok by a rock thrown at his head.Netting's primary focus was on the Kofyar ecological adaptations, including the highly intensive agriculture being practiced and also the social institutions that were instrumental to sustainability.Netting's Hill Farmers of Nigeria,[5] a classic book in the field of cultural ecology, showed how social institutions such as household form and land tenure had adjusted to the intensive cultivation system.Netting compared adaptations of Kofyar and their neighbors to demonstrate Ester Boserup's[6] thesis that agricultural intensification relates to the growth of increasingly dense population and decreasing per capita land area.[11] Although most Kofyar now live in the Benue Valley (or in cities), the Jos Plateau homeland is still inhabited largely because of the efforts to maintain it as a cultural and economic resource.