Hay farming a saviour for pastoralists in war against perpetual drought

Mohamed Sala Mohamed, a son of Chief Mohamed at his father's hay farm in Bulahaji Location, Mandera County

For the majority population in Kenya’s arid North Eastern region, virtually everything about commerce and food revolves around pastoralism. The raising and herding of livestock for a living is therefore a matter of life and death.

The heart valves of this lifestyle passed down generations from time immemorial are water and pasture whose scarcity is often the cause of communal conflict in these areas. Both the natural resources are terribly scarce in these times of unpredictable weather patterns with rains that come erratically after long intervals and prolonged nightmarish droughts that are increasingly becoming the norm.