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 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 study aims to identify the socio-cultural, economic and institutional factors contributing to gender inequalities among the pastoralists of Bauchi and Gombe States in Nigeria's Sahel region
This study explores the role of formal education in empowering women in Bor, South Sudan, a region severely affected by prolonged conflict leading to high school dropout rates, low enrollment, and weakened educational institutions.
Many of East Africa's drylands have suffered from top-down neglect or modernisation, both of which have failed to integrate local knowledge and voices. Can participatory planning help, and how?
This study explored the coping strategies and underlying causes of vulnerability in Makuach, Anyidi, Baidit, Kolnyang and Jalle, in Bor County, an area that is increasingly vulnerable to floods.
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 article examines the socio-economic and environmental challenges faced by women pastoralists in the Sahelian region of northern Nigeria and provides recommendations to support their livelihoods.
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 introduces AfriScout, a digital app that shows potential for mitigating some of the challenges pastoralists face by providing them with information to make more informed decisions.
This is the third in a series of longitudinal studies into the political, socioeconomic and environmental issues facing pastoralists and agropastoralists in Hayin Ade and Wuro Alhaji Idrissa Bappate.
