### q2 resource scarcity can break up families > A Samburu herdsman, Leletit belongs to the semi-nomadic pastoralist community. Livestock are woven into the social fabric of life here; animals are an essential source of food, nutrition and financial security and the herders take great pride in their animals. > > With a wife and four children to feed, after the first invasion he started growing leafy green vegetables and crops. But last week the locusts came back and ate them as well. Now he has been forced to send two children to live with his brother, and his four goats have moved in with a neighbour’s herd. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fn7bwxd8fsfz534pkt38drg6) - [[Kenyan Pastoralists Impacted by Locust Swarms by Georgina Smith#q2 resource scarcity can break up families|View in Vault]]