AGRICULTURE & LIVESTOCK
Double jeopardy for locust-hit Somali farmers in Luq
(ERGO) - Around 21 small farms in a village in Luq district in southern Somalia’s Gedo region burnt down, as farmers...
Mosquito nets save Somali farmers from locusts
(ERGO) - Farmers in central Somalia are using mosquito netting in an inventive way of protecting their crops from voracious locusts...
Somali families driven off their land by desert locusts
Hassan Hashi Beyle, an agro-pastoralist in central Somalia’s Guriel district, packed his seven youngest children into a rented car last...
Locusts push families to the brink in central Somalia
(ERGO) - As a father of eight children, Dahir Abdi Hashi feels totally dejected that he has lost his job...
Cash bailout for Somaliland farmers hit by locusts
(ERGO) - Mahamud Ismail Jama used to be able to support his family of 10 children from the income from...
New livestock market in central Somalia boosts trade
(ERGO) - A new goat market in the central Somali town of Guriel has improved health and safety and trading...
Somali pastoralists invest in wire fencing for animals to avoid cutting trees
(ERGO) - Pastoralists in the northern Somali region of Sool have started using wire fencing to corral their animals to...
River Shabelle floods blight Hiran farming families’ harvests three times in a row
(ERGO) - Mohamed Abddullahi Wayel, a father of nine, has just seen the family’s four-hectare farm and all the work...
Somali herders and families left stranded by Shabelle river floods
(ERGO) - Pastoralists and their livestock have been cut off by river floods in southern Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region, forcing...
Galmudug pastoralists getting desperate as livestock sales stagnate
(ERGO) - Osman Mahamud Gedi, father of seven, has been back and forth to the livestock market at Wasil, 60...
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