What are the 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 articles to keep updated.
In this episode of Dynamic Drylands podcast, an expert discusses how smallholder farmers recover after fighting—and why they receive so little support.
This episode of Dynamic Drylands podcast series 2 reflects on how the international climate and development community can support people living in the most fragile and hard-to-reach places.
Somalia is in a severe crisis that has built up over four failed rainy seasons. How are communities anticipating these shocks and how can we work with them to better integrate anticipatory action?
As we mark World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, read this blog by SPARC member organisation Cowater International on the role innovation can play to tackle desertification and drought.
The war in Ukraine is helping to push up food prices globally. SPARC Executive Director Mark Redwood discusses how we can support pastoralists in Africa to build their resilience to shocks.
How re-thinking how we understand 'resilience' can spur climate, development and humanitarian actors to work together to support people in the Sahel facing complex, multiple challenges.
Find out more about a new SPARC research project working with researchers and women and girls in the Sahel to advance gender equality in fragile food systems.
Join SPARC at this hybrid event as we share our evidence from pastoralists in Somalia on the role of early warning and real-time learning to improve the future design of anticipatory action.
Read here about the effects of the Russian-Ukrainian war on commodity prices (wheat and fertiliser) and policy implications for countries in North and sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East
