Issue brief: Somalia: drought and rising costs take hold

This brief is the second in a series highlighting the challenges facing people from different livelihoods in three sites in Somalia - Burao (Togdheer), Galkayo (Mudug) and Jowhar (Middle Shabelle).

Publisher SPARC
By Leigh Mayhew Ibifuro Joy Alasia Sarah Opitz-Stapleton Ibrahim Ali Dagane Isaac Mbeche Muzzamil Abdi Sheikh Samaha Yusuf Nor Abdiaziz Mohamed Harir Abdirahman Said Hassan Obioma Egemonye
Reframing aid and resilience Supporting livelihoods and markets Africa Somalia

This brief is the second in a series that highlights the challenges facing people from different livelihoods across three sites in Somalia: Burao (Togdheer), Galkayo (Mudug) and Jowhar (Middle Shabelle). It continues the line of inquiry outlined in the report Livelihoods, Conflict and Mediation: Somalia (Opitz-Stapleton et al., 2022).

The economic, environmental, political and social contexts at the local, national and regional levels are continually evolving, and regional to global events such as the economic repercussions of Covid-19 are being felt at the local level. In this brief, we aimed to capture how pastoralists, agropastoralists and farmers are coping with and adapting their livelihoods to this dynamism.

The key messages are:

 

 


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