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Livelihood Diversification “AS A POET I CAN INFLUENCE THE COMMUNITY” “WE QUIT FARMING AND WENT BACK TO LIVESTOCK” Somalia has been described as a nation of poets. Poetry plays a “As a result of my poetry many residents in Afmadow have abandoned Qara Guto is located three kilometers North East from Negelle forced us to change. I realized that the emergency livestock feed which central role in Somali culture and is used as a major oral tool of self- the trade in charcoal”, explains a proud Halima. When asked to recite town, about 595 Km South of Addis Ababa. Following top-down official saved some of my stock in 2008 had been brought from as far as Addis expression and cultural communication. Somalis use poetry to express one of her poems, she doesn’t hesitate and takes her time to give us a advice, many pastoral families in the area had chosen settlement over Ababa. My three breeding cows survived thanks to the assistance of their feelings, praise their animals and natural resources and glorify or meticulous translation: mobility and ranching and privatization over communal land use. The the Debano livestock feeding center. I realized that if a similar drought defend their clans. Poets are held in high esteem as they reach out to new order led to disrupted grazing patterns, shrinking of communal occurred again, I had to be prepared. Now I will be able to comfortably everyone within the community. “Refrain, do not cut the wet trees, oh people, grazing land and the degradation of rangelands. feed more than 10 of my breeding animals from the share of hay I Halima Haji Shafat, a mother of 4 in the Lower Juba region of these are our diamonds. Hussein Webo, a 47-year old community elder, explains how expect. It was this experience that motivated us all to consolidate and Somalia, has been actively involved in the ELMT program, launching Respect the home of our wildlife, the food of our animals. his community decided to restore 200 hectares of land that they expand the size of the enclosure area.” Hussein is convinced that the single handedly a poetic campaign to halt environmental degradation. Don’t degrade our land, spare our inheritance.” had previously used for farming. They decided to build a protected key to their success comes from claiming their confidence back, both communal enclosure to grow grass and feed their livestock. “Ours is a as livestock keepers and as consensus-building community members. reversal story”, laughs Webo. “We were new farmers and after a long drought and heavy rains we lost both, the crops and the rangeland. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS IN The rangelands were bare, we could not feed our livestock, and the NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT STORIES OF CHANG E crops were gone, we could not feed our people. We were 120 families, all desperate for food. After endless discussions we decided to quit • SUPPORTING CUSTOMARY INSTITUTIONS IN 22 COMMUNITIES TO ANALYZE AND ACT ON NRM farming and look better after our livestock.” CHALLENGES LEADING TO THE CREATION OF OVER 32 With the technical support of SC/US, they dismantled the farms DROUGHT RESERVES, THE DISMANTLING OF ILLEGAL “HELPING MAP MY AREA HAS GIVEN ME BIRDS EYES” and got in touch with the Woreda Pastoral Development Office who SETTLEMENTS AND FARMS AND OPENING UP OF provided them with grass seeds and seedlings which they planted MIGRATION ROUTES Hassan from Borana, Southern Ethiopia, thinks that participatory sense of ownership.” on communal land to combat degradation. During the 2008 drought- • DEVELOPING A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR mapping is the best tool his community has received. “It has helped Hassan is also excited about the outcome. “From the mapping emergency they fed their livestock and in the process discovered that PARTICIPATORY MAPPING AND ACTION PLANNING AT us look at our land resources and mobility patterns with bird eyes. discussions we developed community action plans to address our hay could save their animals during drought. The community then WATERSHED LEVEL At madda level (the grazing areas around wells), elders are meeting key problems together with the local government, we divided up agreed to extend the pilot enclosure into 200 hectares of pasture. “We together more regularly to discuss rangeland problems and solutions responsibilities on how to address them and then followed up progress mobilized 37 helpers to construct terracing. We also prepared seedling • REGIONAL SHARING OF EXPERIENCES OF NRM ISSUES INCLUDING PARTICIPATORY MAPPING, PROSOPIS and the government officials who also attended the participatory with regular meetings. We have presented our map and action plans holes and planted 2500 seedlings.” CONTROL, HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT AND RANGELAND mapping sessions have now started talking to the elders. We have to the local government and other NGOs that are working in the area His friend Hussein Kedir, 45 years old, elaborates further: “Problems PRODUCTS now open debates and discussions over our resources. There is a new and we hope that they will support us in addressing our priority issues.” 20 ELMT/ELSE | CHALLENGES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND LESSONS LEARNT 21 LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION The majority of pastoral homesteads in Kenya adapted business skills training the remote, semi-arid and conflict-ridden materials to Somali communities in Northern areas continue to suffer from lack of business Kenya and developed a business literacy and financial training. Yet, mobile phones curriculum that has now been adopted by the and mobile money transfer services are Ministry of Education. VSF Suisse trained already transforming their lives. It is now camel herders and women traders in Isiolo easier for them to check livestock prices, and Nairobi in hygienic milk handling which send and receive money and keep in touch. reduces losses and increases income. SC/ Still, literacy standards in the region are low US supported cereal trading groups in remote and without business skills training, it is very areas and linked them to suppliers. difficult for livestock keepers to develop and A wide range of income-generating sustain new income-generating activities that activities were supported. Bee-keeping, can help them cope better in times of drought. mat weaving, basket making, hides and In light of these problems the ELMT/ skin processing, cereal, livestock and milk ELSE program focused on exploring avenues marketing are some of the small businesses for enhancing livelihood diversification, now thriving in the area. In addition, fodder offering literacy improvement and training on production has been promoted in the three practical skills of business management as countries and methodologies strengthened well as linking producers to markets. CARE through training and experience sharing. 22 ELMT/ELSE | CHALLENGES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND LESSONS LEARNT 23 “I THOUGHT I HAD ARRIVED BUT MY STORIES OF “I HAD NEVER SEEN OR HEARD OF A BORAN SELLING PASTURE” BUSINESS HAD JUST STARTED” Adan Ali Halake, a Boran pastoralist from and sell the surplus. I will invest the balance when “Milk for us is the same thing as bread for you”, explains Amina. “I started CHANGE Garbatulla, Kenya, never imagined he could make the drought finishes.” The health of his 8 cattle has selling milk in 2004, after my husband was killed by the militias. He had left a living from growing fodder. “I had never seen or also improved. “Before I used to get an average of me with eight children to feed and I was desperate to support them.” Amina Ali heard of a Boran selling pasture to make a living”, two glasses of milk per day from my cattle, but now Omar, from Bulla Hawa, interrupts our conversation to attend to her customers, laughs the 57 year-old father of five. I get up to seven glasses. All thanks to this fodder.” all queuing to buy her milk. “I started with 40 liters of milk given to me by relatives After being trained in fodder production by Halake adds, “As a community, we have who owned goats, cattle and camels. This was my start-up capital” From the VSF-S, he cleared some land and started growing benefited greatly from the training.” Traditionally, milk sales she progressed step by step into selling other products that further fodder. ”I was the last trainee to establish a grass residues from planted crops had no value in the boosted her capital. Eventually she was able to purchase milk without having to farm; I didn’t have the capital to plough an area village and were mostly burned. This has now rely on her relatives. She thought she had made it. that had never been cultivated before,” explains changed. “My fodder production has generated a In February 2009, Amina was among the 21 women who received training Halake. “But once my farm was established, it lot of interest among my neighbors. Six of them from VSF Suisse in milk handling and hygiene. “The training turned my business produced 153 bales of fodder, part of which I sold borrowed my hay while others have asked for my around. I used to sell an average of 40 liters a day of which 15 would get spoilt to the government for relief distribution to the local hay box to bale their own.” As a pastoralist, Halake or sour by the end of the day. I was trained in milk testing, proper cleaning and community, each at Ksh200 per bale (about USD is proud to share his knowledge: “It has also created storage. I was also given an aluminum milk container by VSF Suisse.” After 3).“ interest among other clans who migrate into this putting all these measures into practice, her business doubled. He raises his arms, still in disbelief: “I generated area from neighboring countries. Many people have “I now boil surplus milk and store it in a clean aluminum container inside a a total income of Ksh28,000 (USD 380), just from asked me for seeds so that they can go back and try hole in which I pour cold water ready for the next day.
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