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World Bank funds $248 million project to protect pastoralists’ livestock

11/11/2015

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) have committed to means of production of two million pastoralists whose livelihoods depend on their livestock. Pastoralism in its two main forms, transhumance and nomadism, is a way of life that is still very common in arid and semi-arid zones,...

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