Out of Utah - To Africa

USU researchers are working in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia to help poor rural households diversify their livelihoods. The Pastoral Risk Management Project, known as PARIMA, assists people who depend on herding for sustenance and seeks to bolster residents’ economic security by linking them with livestock export markets. Pastoralists in the region’s Borana Plateau depend on raising cattle, sheep and goats to earn a living. Encroaching settlement and cultivation, along with drought, population growth and overgrazing are forcing the semi-nomadic people to find new ways to supplement their incomes.

For more information, contact Layne Coppock [lcoppock@cc.usu.edu], principal investigator and associate professor in the College of Natural Resources’ Department of Environment and Society, 435-797-1262.