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Mandera pastoralists embrace fodder farming to beat drought

A farmer in Maygag location loads fodder harvest on a donkey cart for transport to the local fodder store in Rhamo town on March 24, 2025. [Ibrahim Adan Ali, Standard]

After years of enduring drought and conflict over pasture, communities in Mandera County are turning to fodder farming to ensure livestock feed.

A European Union-funded project dubbed The Building Opportunities for Resilience in the Horn of Africa (Boresha-Nabad) has trained 361 farmer groups in Mandera East and Lafey constituencies on the adoption of climate-smart fodder production.

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