Abstract
In the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs)1 of East Africa, most of the people are pastoralists and agro-pastoralists; their agricultural production depends primarily on livestock keeping and to a lesser extent on the cultivation of maize, millet and sorghum and legumes such as beans, green gram, pigeon pea and cowpea (FAO, 2013). These pastoralists and agro-pastoralists face major risks of livestock death and crop failures...