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 explores the obstacles to, and opportunities for, Sudanese refugee women in eastern Chad to access land. It examines systemic barriers and how to improve coordination between stakeholders.
This report evaluates AfriScout Steward, a digital app used in Kenya that provides crowd-sourced data on rangelands, and AfriScout Regen, an app that provides intensive grazing support in Ethiopia.
This brief aims to inform the Kenyan government’s review of the NLP of 2009 from a pastoralist perspective, to ensure that the NLP recognises and secures pastoralists’ land rights.
The paper offers some insights into understanding gendered vulnerabilities in Bor County, South Sudan, and provides recommendations to empower, and support the resilience of, women and girls.
Agro-pastoral communities in drylands face worsening climate, economic and social pressures, all of which disproportionately impact women. GTAs can help build resilient, sustainable livelihoods.
This study explores narratives around water supply and household resilience from the perspective of funding and development agencies, and reviews policies for adaptation and resilience in drylands.
This report sets out to see if it is possible to assess the impacts PWP assets have on people’s livelihoods in order to learn new lessons about how, when — or whether — to use PWP.
This report provides new data about the current and potential future losses and damages from climate-attributable weather events in the Sahel and Horn of Africa, with a specific focus on the agriculture and livestock sectors.
This report examines the causes and impacts of conflict through a political economy and food production lens, focusing on the farmers of Azaza Sogora Village and the Fallata pastoralists
