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A woman tending to her sheep: one of the new livelihood activities adopted by farming households in Yobe State, Nigeria. Credit: Bilkisu A. Jamo / BOOX Community Ltd
Policy brief

This policy brief explores how communities use the creative recombination of available resources, skills, and relationships – or bricolage – to respond to shocks and cope with uncertainty.
A woman feeds her camel
Policy brief

This report explores ways in which economically empowered pastoralist women initiate and or adopt innovations at a personal and communal level.
The back of man’s head as he looks towards the distance at some grazing livestock
Policy brief

This brief aims to understand the root causes and impacts of farmer–herder conflicts through a food production system and political economy lens.

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SPARC, ICPALD and JO conference in Nairobi, October 2025

SPARC, ICPALD and JO conference in Nairobi, October 2025

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Flooding in Bor, Jonglei state, South Sudan. Credit: Elphas Ngugi / SPARC
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SPARC has six years of experience carrying out research and collecting meaningful data in some of the world’s most fragile places.
Abandoned borehole in Turkana, Kenya. Credit: Elphas Ngugi / Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)
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To make a real difference in fragile, conflict-affected drylands, the aid sector must drop heroic crisis narratives and refocus on the true actors in the story.
 

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