Boi de Mocambique

I learned something interesting today:

During the war, every head of cattle was stolen by troops, and eventually killed or sold.

(something I already knew was that elephants, lions, zebras, giraffes, etc were all killed as target practice by the rebels fighting in the civil war)

So, since each head of cattle was stolen because of the war, there was a 10 year period where there were very very few nomadic people with cattle in Gaza, Mozambique (a southern most Providence)

What effect this had, was that many of the former cattle herders who had cattle breeding, grazing, husbandry and creation knowledge no longer had cows. So let's fast forward- to this day the few people who have cows are learning the trade, and doing so very slowly.

Yesterday an American who is a trained veterinarian in the US told me that if they would just implement the practice of castration, the wealth of these nomadic cattle herders could quadruple! It is crazy how delicate some things are, and how I really don't see how deep the roots of Mozambique's civil war are.