Explore SPARC’s publications and resources as we create, distil, evaluate and share evidence and best practice on research and policy that aims to support pastoralists and farmers in dryland areas.
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 brief provides an overview of how trade and markets in Darfur have adapted, positively and negatively, to the conflict since full-scale war broke out in April 2023.
Despite efforts to link humanitarian responses and development programming, gaps in effectively aligning and integrating the two aids still exist. How can we move towards effective integration?
This paper studies the causal link between forage condition and food security in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, and explores the mechanisms through which the effects occur.
This policy brief shares experiences of using crowdsourced data to observe changes in food security attributable to drought in hard-to-reach and fragile areas of Ethiopia and Kenya.
This paper explores the recent history of early warning systems in Kenya, determining key features of the political, technical and conceptual processes that prefigure contemporary drought management.
Farming after fighting: a report that examines agricultural recovery after conflict, using global case studies to extract insights and gather learnings.
This brief presents initial results from data, and summarises lessons learned, of using crowdsourcing techniques to gather data on the impacts of climatic shocks on pastoral systems and livelihoods.
This study assesses the potential of using micro-tasking to monitor socioeconomic and environmental indicators in remote settings using a new platform called KAZNET.
This report looks at the degree to which traders marketing livestock from the rangelands use formal financial services, and examines the development of these financial services.
This paper highlights the effects of COVID-19 and provides recommendations to inform strategic planning, humanitarian aid, and resilience building for the livestock value chain in Somalia and the Horn of Africa.
