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Mali conflict ups pressure on climate-stressed herders
Posted by AlertNet: Soumaila T Diarra on March 20th, 2013
AlertNet: The recent conflict in northern Mali, where the situation remains volatile, has left many livestock herders in fear of losing millions of cattle, sheep and goats at a time when they were already struggling to find enough pasture for their animals due to drought.
Since the spring of 2012, violence between Islamist groups who grabbed much of the north from Tuareg nomads, and the army, supported by foreign troops for the past two months, has disturbed the West African nation's traditional grazing...
Mali farmers adopt short-season crop as rainfall shifts
Posted by AlertNet: Soumaila T Diarra on September 20th, 2011
AlertNet: Mariam Coulibaly surveys the leaves of groundnuts growing in the fields outside her village. The crop is a traditional one in this west African country, but the seed variety is not.
"We no longer grow tikaba (a traditional variety of groundnut)... It has disappeared from our region,' Coulibaly says.
Shifting patterns of rainfall, likely associated with climate change, have shortened the rainy season in Mali to no more than three months. But the old groundnuts took four months to grow, which...
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