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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.

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 Silhouette of seven soldiers walking along horizon with sun behind low in the sky
Technical report

This SPARC-funded report, launched at COP28 in December, argues for a new way of thinking about and delivering the climate agenda in fragile and conflict-affected situations.
A woman and child walk through a field among a flock of sheep
Technical report

The challenges of food security and economic development in fragile contexts have become urgent. This report asks what more can be done to address food security in such contexts using private sector solutions.
An elderly man looks across his field as a man guides two cattle who are ploughing the black soil
Policy brief

This policy brief, developed for the UK’s 2023 Global Food Security Summit, summarises insights from recent SPARC research on how to bolster food security in countries affected by conflict and protracted crises.
A group of people standing on the shore and in the ocean with buildings in the background on a cloudy day
Technical report

This report outlines ways that policymakers in Somalia can increase access to climate finance and better integrate adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management in socioeconomic development.
A close-up of a man’s hand cupped together pouring grains of harvested rice downwards
Technical report

This study analyses the gaps in climate finance in the West African Economic and Monetary Union, a region among the most exposed to climate impacts, and sets out the policy implications of action.
People and cattle take water from a small pool in drylands
Policy brief

This policy brief outlines some of the key actions the Federal Government of Somalia, and development and humanitarian partners financing climate-related activities can take to accelerate climate action.
Pastoralist herding his livestock in Ethiopia, May 2016. Credit: S. Sheridan/Mercy Corps
Policy brief

This policy brief, produced for AMCEN 2023, highlights five significant transboundary climate risks in Africa that urgently need consideration for management.
 People stand in a cattle yard among livestock
Policy brief

This policy brief summarises key learning from the Ward Development Planning model, an innovative approach to local participatory development planning being implemented in Kenya’s drylands.
 A woman stoops over a lush green field of rice with hills blurred in the background
Evidence review

Farming after fighting: a report that examines agricultural recovery after conflict, using global case studies to extract insights and gather learnings.

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