IRIN | Inside Kenya’s Turkana region : cattle, climate change, and oil
▻http://www.irinnews.org/feature/2018/01/15/inside-kenya-s-turkana-region-cattle-climate-change-and-oil
Its arid climate and soil conditions render most of its terrain unsuitable for growing crops, so almost all of the county’s 1.3 million inhabitants raise livestock. And although pastoralism accounts for an estimated 12 percent of Kenya’s GDP, successive governments have long neglected the sector as backward, and denied it adequate investment in key areas such as animal health, market access, and water management.
As a result, the people of Turkana and, to an even greater extent, their livestock, are particularly vulnerable when drought strikes – as it did during much of 2017.