Community ‘Reaps Big’ in Fodder Farming

The front yard of Fatuma Molu’s home is a hive of activity. Where dust once blew, there are now bundles of cut, dried fodder — feed that will keep her animals alive through the long dry months ahead.

Growing feed before the drought comes

Through PACIDA’s support, communities are producing fodder and rehabilitating degraded rangelands so that livestock have something to eat when pasture disappears. “We expect to harvest 60 bales of hay per acre from the rehabilitated rangeland,” says one participant — a yield that would have seemed impossible on the same bare ground a season earlier.

Resilience you can store

Fodder banks turn a good rainy season into an insurance policy against the next bad one. It is climate adaptation at its most practical: grass cut, dried and stored today so that herds — and the families who depend on them — survive tomorrow.