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Kenya Maps Livestock Pathways to Boost Pastoral Trade and Resilience

By Benson Ltamely Pastoralist communities, traders and policy makers in Kenya are poised to receive accurate and timely information through the National Livestock Market Information…

Why protecting Kenya’s pastoralists is key to meat industry growth

Pastoralists produce most of Kenya’s livestock, yet they remain among the most vulnerable in the meat value chain. At the Kenya Meat Expo, experts called…

Program seeks to map livestock routes in Ethiopia and Kenya to help improve services for pastoralists

The Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) program is seeking to create national maps of livestock routes in Ethiopia and Kenya,…

Africa’s pastoralists hold the key to sustainable livestock and environmental balance

By Daouda Ngom,  Minister of Environment and Ecological Transition for Senegal Across Africa, pastoralists and livestock keepers sustain herding systems which are closely bound up…