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Droughts, floods and land conflicts continue to adversely affect more people in Nigeria than any other type of disaster. Yet these events are human-caused or made worse by human practices.
Through Holistic Management and its planned grazing methodology, pastoral droughts can be eliminated and the severity and impact of any meteorological droughts that do occur can be reduced.
“My grandfather cheated my father,” Alhaji Musa told Sortor. “He gave him wives and cows, but wouldn’t send him to school. And my father cheated me. He bought wives for me and cattle, but never sent me to school. I will not cheat my children that way.”
As their health began to improve so did the Fulani’s confidence grow in established, modern medicine, and the Fulani, rather than frequenting native doctors, began to choose the local teaching and specialist hospitals
This is a 14-day training of key community leaders, farmers and herdsmen from each of the three grazing sites, followed by two follow-up visits, to include the following factors critical to the project’s success: