This is the sixth in a series of blog posts that bring together PASTRES work from 2018-2023 around a number of themes. In this post, we show the importance of markets for pastoralists.
Pastoralists are always involved in markets. Selling animals and their products is an essential part of any pastoral livelihood, and many pastoralists are involved in long-distance, globalised trade, trekking animals over long distances or selling to traders who move animals to terminal markets many thousands of kilometres away, often in different countries. The livestock trade in the Greater Horn of Africa, for example, contributes to billions of dollars of revenue, both for states and others involved in marketing, as well as sustaining livelihoods across the region.
This article is from PASTRES, a research programme that aims to learn from pastoralists about responding to uncertainty and resilience, with lessons for global challenges. PASTRES is co-hosted by IDS.
