Dying cattle, costly grains fuel Niger food crisis
Friday, May 28, 2010 - 06:21
in Mathematics & Economics
GADABEJI, Niger (AP) -- At this time of year, the Gadabeji Reserve should be refuge for the nomadic tribes who travel across a moonscape on the edge of the Sahara to graze their cattle. But the grass is meager after a drought killed off the last year's crops. Now the cattle are too weak to stand and too skinny to sell, leaving the poor without any way to buy grain to feed their families....