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Carmen is the SPARC Livelihoods, Markets and Economy Lead.

She is a livelihood and market systems expert at MercyCorps.

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Woman Tending to the goats in Kenya. Credit: Jakob Dall - Danish Red Cross (p-KEN0534) Publications and resources

This report looks at the degree to which traders marketing livestock from the rangelands use formal financial services, and examines the development of these financial services.
A cattle trader at the animal market in Forobaranga, West Darfur. Publications and resources

This paper draws on interviews with traders and herders in Sudan, and secondary literature, to gain insight into how the suspended Hajj in 2020 affected livestock traders and herders on low incomes.

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