Productive livestock

Livestock keeping depends on multiple skills, including understanding of animal behaviour, early diagnosis of diseases and medication, preparing for weather conditions, droughts and climate change, care of calves, and selecting feeds.

Moreover, in pastoral areas, it requires close cooperation with family and neighbours, negotiation on land access and knowing when and where to sell. Investment in drylands must harness this knowledge and skills.

These photos and texts are from young pastoralists that participated in a November 2024 ‘photovoice’ project in Kenya

“Sometimes a camel gives stillbirth or premature birth that leads to eventual loss of the calf.

Such a camel becomes aggressive, emotional and it is difficult to milk.

Hence, we help it adopt another calf, and such a calf ends up having two mothers.

Zeinabu Adano, Biliqo