- Local weather change is impacting grazing intervals for livestock.
- Pastoralists in Senegal have to begin their journeys earlier and journey additional for his or her herds to graze.
- The UN estimates Senegalese pastoralists provide 65% of meat and 70% of milk offered at native markets within the area.
Because the local weather modifications in Senegal, pastoralists — or cattle, sheep, and goat herders — are experiencing an evolving set of issues.
Up to now, pastoralists would take their herds to graze on grass near house. However with wet seasons changing into much less predictable, discovering areas for herds to graze has been changing into tougher. Consequently, pastoralists must journey additional to feed their animals.
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New grazing areas can convey new threats, and pastoralists have to begin shifting with their animals months earlier and generally journey virtually 100 miles to search out meals.
The modifications do not simply influence the animals. They will uproot complete households. Whereas the boys go together with their animals to search out land to graze on, their kids and wives are left at house a whole bunch of miles away.
