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A herd of cattle being driven across open savanna grassland by herders under a warm late-afternoon sky.

Turning rhetoric into livestock revolution: Nigeria’s long road to reform

Nigeria sits on one of West Africa’s largest livestock populations, yet decades of policy pledges have done little to turn pastoralism into a modern, productive industry. According to Punch Newspapers, the gap between official rhetoric and on-the-ground transformation remains the defining challenge for the country’s livestock sector. Livestock keeping is a mainstay of rural livelihoods […]

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The wider impact of donkey theft in Kenya

Across much of rural Kenya, a single donkey can be the difference between a household that fetches water in time and one that does not. As the-star.co.ke reports, the steady theft of these animals is now having consequences that stretch well beyond the loss of a single beast, unsettling families, farms and the wider rural