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  • Alex Humphrey
Pastoralists in Biemruok cattle camp, in Bentiu, South Sudan - Image by Nektarios Markogiannis / UNMISS - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED

This report explores how pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in South Sudan's Unity State are adapting their livelihood strategies in response to conflict and climate shocks.
Female pastoralist in Somalia

This recent study from SPARC offers insights from a real-time study of people’s lives in Somalia during 2020–2022, looking at how crisis-affected people take their own anticipatory action.
Two young Sudanese boys with livestock in the drylands (c) Mercy Corps

This report looks at volatility in South Sudan's drylands, and discusses the short-term strategies pastoralists use when responding to emerging threats and the longer-term changes to their priorities.
Somali region drought response/ Photo Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia/2022/Mulugeta Ayene (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

This brief is the second in a series highlighting learnings from a longitudinal study on anticipatory action in Somalia.
Young woman harvests vegetables at home, Biu, Nigeria - Photo Credit: Ezra Millstein/Mercy Corps

This paper discusses the effects of compounding shocks and stresses in agropastoral communities in Nigeria. It presents findings on the ways that households are coping and adapting to uncertainty.
Villagers going home after building an embankment in anticipation of flooding on the River Juba, Somalia. - Mercy Corps

This brief is the first part of a series highlighting learnings that are emerging from a longitudinal study on anticipatory action in Somalia.
A cattle trader at the animal market in Forobaranga, West Darfur.

This paper draws on interviews with traders and herders in Sudan, and secondary literature, to gain insight into how the suspended Hajj in 2020 affected livestock traders and herders on low incomes.
Sunrise in a cattle ranch in Kaduna State, Nigeria

In this brief, SPARC speaks to farmers and pastoralists in conflict-affected drylands of Nigeria to gauge how Covid-19, and lockdown measures, have affected their social relationships.

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