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.
This study builds on earlier SPARC-IDRC research on food prices in Mali and Sudan by looking at subsequent price changes and their drivers, effects, and public responses from 2023 to mid-2025.
This journal article assesses the persistence of pastoral livelihoods despite far-reaching social, political, economic, and technological change over the last 45 years (1975–2020).
This report explores collective pastoral land tenure through three country case studies, identifying practical measures for understanding perceived security of communal land rights.
This critical analysis of the National Land Policy 2009 was undertaken on the request of the National Land Commission to inform strategic inputs to the policy review process.
This brief aims to inform the Kenyan government’s review of the NLP of 2009 from a pastoralist perspective, to ensure that the NLP recognises and secures pastoralists’ land rights.
