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 reviews aims to deepen understanding of Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs) in pastoral contexts in SPARC countries in Africa. It describes where and how transformative impacts have occurred.
This report explores the perspectives of agro-pastoralist men and women in Toch East and Pathuon West Payams on how flooding and conflict impact their lives and livelihoods.
This report examines if crowdsourcing app KAZNET can be used to collect data on drought impacts and improve early warning systems and index-based drought risk financing and insurance products.
This book brings together contributions from diverse disciplinary perspectives to explore the intersecting themes shaping the future of mobile pastoralism in Africa’s drylands.
This journal article evaluates KAZNET, a crowdsourcing initiative that collects and shares near-real-time data about livestock markets, forage conditions, and food security in Kenya’s drylands.
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 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.
