Habiba Diba is a livestock trader at the Jirime livestock market in Northern Kenya’s Marsabit County.
She is the sole provider for her family of eight, paying for her children’s school fees and other household needs. Habiba has been running a livestock trading business since 2012.
However, in 2022, she lost 30 of her 40 trading goats to thieves, almost completely cutting off her income.
Garissa County, located in Northern Kenya, has a population of 841,353 people and is primarily inhabited by the Somali community, most of whom are pastoralists. Unfortunately, a two-year
The residents of Isiolo County, in Northern Kenya, rely primarily on livestock production for their livelihoods. The county has 26 markets (11 food markets and 15 livestock markets), which provide jobs and a diverse range of products for its 268,002 residents.
In northern Kenya, 80 percent of the population relies on livestock keeping as their main source of livelihood. To strengthen their resilience to shocks and stresses, Feed the Future Kenya Livestock Market Systems Activity, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by ACDI/VOCA, aimed to reduce the prevalence and depth of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. The Activity supported 55,000 livestock traders in improving their household incomes by up to 40 percent.
