Pastoralism in a stateless environment: the case of the southern Somalia borderlands. Geography Research Forum

"Many of Somalia’s productive sectors, already weak before the civil war, have been damaged in the course of the country’s ten years of armed conflict and state collapse.... The livestock sector, historically the most productive part of the Somali economy, has survived reasonably well, due in part to its relative autonomy from government services (United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] 1998: 3).&quot