Trading their animals instead of holding on to large flocks and using their land in different ways may help herders in northern Kenya survive when drought and hunger strike By 7.30am, the livestock market in Lodwar is packed with goats, traders and men in traditional dress. Lodwar is the economic centre of Kenya’s northern county of Turkana, which, despite the apparent health of its animal stocks, is still struggling to recover from a drought in 2011 that left many dead and the majority of the region’s people surviving on food aid.
Turkana pastoralists encouraged to innovate to build resilience to drought | Peter Guest
Posted by getsomenews.com on Oct 22, 2012