Inclusive value chains

While women and young people often don’t own livestock, in many pastoral areas they are central to the value, adding products and services around livestock. In Isiolo, women drive the camel milk value chain, earning decent livelihoods, educating their children, and creating resilient business opportunities.

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

“Mama Ali, a 45-year-old widow, markets camel milk. She sends some to Isiolo and sells the rest in Kinna market. She used her income from milk sales to buy goats and support two of her children studying at university. She has a good relationship with her milk suppliers, acting as an intermediary, sending food and medicines to the herders. In return, she benefits from flexible payment arrangements.”

Abdikadir Golicha, Kinna