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 two questions: Why invest in adolescent girls’ wellbeing and resilience in the fragile drylands of East and West Africa? And what works to support their wellbeing and resilience?
This policy brief explores the use of satellite remote sensing data to understand the impacts of the conflict in Sudan on market activity and agricultural production throughout the country.
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 policy brief synthesises evidence on interventions to support the financial and psychosocial wellbeing of adolescent girls in vulnerable pastoral areas, highlighting gaps to inform future programmes and policies.
Using the evaluation of participatory action research (PAR) using non-traditional methods, this article proposes that the method used would also be valuable in evaluating PAR methods in other cases.
This paper examines the implications of years of protracted conflict, bad governance, poverty and patriarchy on efforts at women’s empowerment and sets out actions that can support women’s resilience.
This study aims to deepen the understanding of land tenure in areas where farmers and pastoralists interact, to help document the root causes of conflicts between farmers and herders.
