How livestock keepers can deal with effects of drought

Mzee Charles Ng'undo of Iviani Village in Makueni County is among livestock farmers who got trained on drought resilience by World Animal Protection (WAP) under the Animals in Disaster Initiative [Gardy Chacha/Standard]

Thirty-eight per cent of the world’s land is exposed to drought, and heat waves will occur 10 times more often going forward.

This emerged during the Africa-Arab Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction Conference that took place in Tunis, Tunisia, last month.