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LIvestock traders, known as faashle, haggle with herders in the livestock market of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. Somaliland is an unrecognized republic that broke away from Somalia in 1991, in one of the world’s poorest regions. Raising small ruminants like goats and Blackhead Persian sheep is the backbone of the economy, employing 70 percent of the population and providing 30 percent of GDP, as well as 85 percent of the autonomous region’s hard currency from exports that allows them to purchase much-needed food from abroad. The markets of Somaliland with their access to export terminals attract herders from South Central Somalia as well as parts of Ethiopia. The concentrated export flow of live animals from the Horn of Africa to the Saudi Peninsula has been called the largest in the world, but the impact of all those animals on the region’s rangeland has been high. Nearly 70 percent of Somaliland’s drought-prone range is considered moderately or strongly degraded.

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LIvestock traders, known as faashle, haggle with herders in the livestock market of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. Somaliland is an unrecognized republic that broke away from Somalia in 1991, in one of the world’s poorest regions. Raising small ruminants like goats and Blackhead Persian sheep is the backbone of the economy, employing 70 percent of the population and providing 30 percent of GDP, as well as 85 percent of the autonomous region’s hard currency from exports that allows them to purchase much-needed food from abroad. The markets of Somaliland with their access to export terminals attract herders from South Central Somalia as well as parts of Ethiopia. The concentrated export flow of live animals from the Horn of Africa to the Saudi Peninsula has been called the largest in the world, but the impact of all those animals on the region’s rangeland has been high. Nearly 70 percent of Somaliland’s drought-prone range is considered moderately or strongly degraded.

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