Livestock keeping is vital to diets and economies across Africa and the Middle East. This episode of Dynamic Drylands explores the markets and financial systems which support millions of farmers and herders in the drylands.
The livelihoods of pastoralists in the drylands of Africa and the Middle East centre around livestock: raising, milking and selling camels, cattle, goats and sheep. Far from being small and unprofitable, livestock keeping supplies millions of people in the region with meat and milk, as well as a source of income and exports.
In this episode, Bola Mosuro goes under the hood to talk with experts about the relationship herders have to their livestock, and how markets and financial measures are being adapted to support people through new shocks and challenges.
Dynamic Drylands is a podcast which explores new ways of thinking about aid, development and resilience in the drylands of Africa and the Middle East. It is produced by ODI's Global Risks and Resilience team for Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC), a six-year research programme managed by Cowater, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Mercy Corps and ODI and commissioned by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
Podcast production by Loftus Media.
Contributors: Rupsha Banerjee, Carmen Jacquez, Kelvin Shikuku.
Host: Bola Mosuro.
