Investments in pastoralism offer best hope for combating droughts in Africa's drylands

Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 14:30 in Mathematics & Economics

As hunger spreads among more than 12 million people in the Horn of Africa, a new study of the response to Kenya's last devastating drought, in 2008-2009, finds that investments aimed at increasing the mobility of livestock herders -- a way of life often viewed as "backward" despite being the most economical and productive use of Kenya's drylands -- could be the key to averting future food crises in arid lands.

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