AGRICULTURE & LIVESTOCK
Traditional community initiative in Galgadud helps impoverished pastoralists to restock their herds
(ERGO) - Local elders in central Somalia’s Galgadud region have activated a traditional mechanism to restock the herds of families...
River Dawa Floods leaves Mandera farming families without income
Farmers in north-eastern Kenya’s Mandera county say they need help to recover from recent river flooding that destroyed their crops...
Pastoralists who lost their livestock embrace the benefits and risks of the sea in Mudug
(ERGO) - Barqad Ali Mahamed spent his entire life herding livestock in the countryside until this year, when he began...
Hard-up Awdal farmers turn to gold digging
(ERGO) - Since last year’s devastating floods that swept away Mahamed Dahir Madar’s two-hectare farm in Baki, in Somaliland’s Awdal...
Urban camel rearing proves lucrative for drought-stressed pastoralists in central Somalia
After three difficult years of drought, Dahir Abdullahi Ali finally found a way to support his family of nine after...
Imported seeds bring huge losses to farmers in Lower Shabelle
(ERGO) - Mohamed Ali Aden has been struggling to live off his family’s one-and-a-half-hectare farm in Awdhigle, in southern Somalia’s...
Drought-hit farmers in Ruqi unable to repay debts causing shop closures in Awdal
(ERGO) - More than 40 shops have closed in Ruqi in Somaliland’s drought-hit Awdal region in the past two months,...
Drought in Bari region forces pastoralists to migrate or stay as livestock die in their village
(ERGO) - Prolonged severe drought has left the dwindling population of the rural village of Laqaanley, in northern Somalia’s Bari...
Livestock deaths cause hunger in Mudug
One thousand five hundred families in Ali-Waal area of Mudug region, central Somalia, are facing dire living conditions due to...
No jobs for farm workers in Baidoa as drought bites harder
(ERGO) - Zeynab Abdullahi Hussein was turned away from her labouring work on a small farm on the outskirts of...
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