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Tanzania: Maasai herders breed fewer, stronger cattle to tackle climate change

2013-01-25 01:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AlertNet: The loss of more than half their livestock in the 2009 drought has led Maasai pastoralists in northern Tanzania's Arusha region to breed fewer, stronger cattle and end their traditional focus on numbers alone as symbols of wealth and status. The impact of that devastating drought, which dealt a blow to the whole nation's economy, is still visible in the small number of cattle in many villages of Engarenaibor in Arusha's Longido district. The district's cattle breeders and owners lost at least...

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