It's the sole support of our livelihood".
Nonetheless, the average current holdings of livestock (5.4 camels, 10 cattle, and 17.8 small stocks; Fig. 4) are by far lower than what was mentioned by Seid (1994), implying that total dependency on livestock rearing as a sole source of livelihood is difficult nowadays.
It is no consolation to families that have lost their sole means of livelihood or have suffered from years of underemployment to learn that some new jobs were created making solar panels in China, or even in the next state over.
The region of Turkana, in the North of Kenya has gone for over five years without a good rain capable of making the grazing lands grow enough grass to feed the region's livestock, its sole source of economic livelihood.
Pastoralists use various adaptive risk management strategies to enhance their resilience and secure their livelihoods when sole dependency on livestock is in question (Swallow 1994; Little et al. 2001).
Reason: livelihood issues".
"It's not their livelihood".
