Ecological destruction of Somalia/Sudan and the Gulf states

[Misil]

The two interesting pieces below make the case that there is a correlation between increased livestock exports from East Africa and a rise in lawlessness and food insecurity in those societies as a result of larger herd sizes and overgrazing to meet the meat demand of the Gulf.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2023.2264679

https://whitesiadbarre.substack.com...dium=ios&utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true

 

[Dagdag]

Great articles always felt this is what caused fighting in Somalia resources and if it was not clan would be new lines drawn to fight over resources like village vs village. This continued meat exports and population boom is scary recipe for Somalia

 

[Cartan Boos]

Why u feeding these dhegecas instead of ourselves

 

[Nin123]

The two interesting pieces below make the case that there is a correlation between increased livestock exports from East Africa and a rise in lawlessness and food insecurity in those societies as a result of larger herd sizes and overgrazing to meet the meat demand of the Gulf.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2023.2264679

https://whitesiadbarre.substack.com...dium=ios&utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true

 

[Burqad]

This is just abdi samatars theory about the crisis of the 1870’s rewritten and somehow given a modern gloss, it’s nonsense.

 

[Thegoodshepherd]

PDF Link
https://www.scienceopen.com/documen...3c-7b0a94745008/ScienceOpen/roape20240001.pdf

Great find @Misil

 

[Dagdag]

https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/WCS-SO-001.pdf

 

[Dagdag]

 

[Dagdag]

Seemed like govt foresaw issue. And wanted to limit heard size over 30 years ago as land was being stressed. they wanted to aggressively sell to keep population static

 

[Dagdag]