Research, Policy and Practice
Table 1 Strategies slaughterhouses use to cope with calamities in the pastoral areas
Common calamities | Roles slaughterhouses play to cope with the calamities | |
|---|---|---|
1 | Climate change and frequent drought/famine | Diversification to by-product value addition Encourage sale and slaughter of animals if drought/famine persists Develop common grazing rangeland resource management |
2 | Flooding | Collective action for infrastructure development, for example, dykes and terraces Develop common grazing land resource management |
3 | Conflicts (clan/community clashes) | Encourage reconciliation Invest in social capital (networks, associations, welfare groups) |
4 | Epidemic livestock diseases | Pre-slaughter inspection Discourage self-treatment of antibiotics |
5 | Wild animals’ encroachment/wild plants encroachment (e.g. Prosopis) to grazing lands | Liaise with relevant government institutions Develop land resource management if a game reserve is around |
6 | Wildfires to grazing lands | Migration Encourage sale and slaughter of animals if pasture becomes unavailable Develop common grazing land resource management |