From Drought to Resilience: Scaling Climate Finance for Sustainable Livestock, Rangeland Restoration and Pastoral Livelihoods in Somalia
In Somalia, livestock is central to livelihoods, exports and the national economy, but it is highly exposed to climate shocks. Recurrent droughts reduce water and pasture, weaken and kill herds, and push pastoral families deeper into hunger and debt. Land degradation further reduces the capacity of rangelands to recover between shocks.
About 60 percent of Somalis rely on pastoralism, and livestock exports reached US$1.07 billion in 2023. Yet about 36.9 percent of Somalia’s land, or 23.3 million hectares, was degraded in 2019. Somalia’s NDC 3.0 allocates 32 percent of its adaptation budget, or US$1.9 billion, to agriculture, livestock and fisheries.
This session brings together government, development, finance, research, civil society and pastoral community partners. It looks at how to scale climate finance for sustainable livestock systems, rangeland restoration and resilient pastoral livelihoods in Somalia.
Ministry of Livestock, Forestry and Range, Federal Government of Somalia; FAO, AfDB, IFAD, EU, climate-finance institutions, development partners, research organisations, civil society and pastoral community representatives.
