Giving Livestock a Lifeline During Drought

For a pastoralist family, losing the herd means losing everything. When drought burns the pasture away, keeping animals alive becomes a race against time.

Through rangeland rehabilitation and emergency feed support, PACIDA gives livestock — and the families who depend on them — a lifeline through the dry season. “We expect to harvest 60 bales of hay per acre from the rehabilitated rangeland,” one participant explains, describing feed that will carry animals through until the rains.

Keeping the herd, keeping the future

Animals that survive a drought are the seed of recovery: they rebuild herds, restore incomes and restart lives when the rains return. Protecting livestock today is protecting the entire pastoralist way of life tomorrow.