Dynamic Drylands is SPARC's podcast mini-series which explores new ways of thinking about aid, development and resilience in the drylands of Africa and the Middle East.
This journal article evaluates KAZNET, a crowdsourcing initiative that collects and shares near-real-time data about livestock markets, forage conditions, and food security in Kenya’s drylands.
This policy brief synthesises evidence on interventions to support the financial and psychosocial wellbeing of adolescent girls in vulnerable pastoral areas, highlighting gaps to inform future programmes and policies.
Using the evaluation of participatory action research (PAR) using non-traditional methods, this article proposes that the method used would also be valuable in evaluating PAR methods in other cases.
As war devastates Sudan, one researcher shares how markets survive, how data is gathered, and why understanding the local situation is key to shaping humanitarian support.
At this year's LANDac Land Conference, SPARC shared evidence from pastoralists in Sudan, South Sudan and Nigeria on how land governance in drylands can create sustainable, gender-inclusive change.
We will draw on key SPARC evidence from Mali on how investing in pastoralism can support livelihoods, food security, climate mitigation, adaptation, peace, and economic stability in West Africa.
