Kenya: In Northern Kenya, the Climate Crisis Shifts Gender Roles

Oct 26, 2020 | Lauren Evans
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Drought has disrupted the traditional way of life for pastoralists, pushing many women into business for the first time.

OLDONYIRO, Kenya—On a Tuesday morning at the Oldonyiro livestock market in November, Samaria Leyagu was doing what just a few years ago would have been unthinkable for a woman from her tribe: She was shopping for a goat.