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What are the key debates, and topical and pressing issues, in research and policy that inform programming and funding to support pastoralists and farmers in dryland regions? What are the perspectives and priorities of dryland communities? Read our news and blog articles to keep updated.

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Four weeks after the rains, this pond in Makueni county, Kenya, built through public works, was almost dry, and no-one was using what water was left as it was contaminated by livestock.
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Too many public works programmes may be failing to deliver long-term benefits – not due to poor execution, but by design. If we want to use them effectively, we need to rethink what they are trying to achieve.
Camels stand in a salt plain in an arid landscape
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SPARC is working with the Ethiopian government and ICPALD to map - for the first time - major livestock routes in the country.
The people of Ta Kuti village, Niger State, Nigeria, are pastoralists and beneficiaries of Nigeria's Fadama II project. Credit: Arne Hoel/World Bank
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A new Ministry of Livestock has been hailed as a key step in addressing worsening farmer-herder conflicts. The reality is more complicated.

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