Problems faced by the Bahima (nomadic pastoralist community) of Uganda

Elizabeth Katushabe works for Natural Livestock Farming (Uganda) and is an Ankole Longhorn cattle keeper herself. She belongs to the Bahima tribe in South Western Uganda used to move with their Ankole cattle. Not from last two decades Uganda government made them to settle which led to cropping of many issues from socio-economic to cultural crises to ecology threat. The community who doesn’t know farming has been facing existential crises. The long horn cattle Ankole are also facing threat. Elizabeth converses with Down To Earth on all these issues.l these issues.