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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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A man on a bicycle rides through flood murky waters into the distance
Policy brief

In advance of the 2025 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, SPARC researchers have prepared three draft discussion documents drawing on six years of SPARC research.
Parched land with sky and clouds in the distance
SPARC partner publication

This report, funded by SPARC and prepared at the request of the G20 Presidency, highlights the potential for more rapid progress to eradicate extreme poverty.
 A man walks behind a herd of goats in drylands
Evidence review

This report, commissioned midway through SPARC’s six-year run, synthesises the programme's work in the period 2020 to mid-2023.
 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.
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 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.
A Samburu woman from Northern Kenya enters data into the Mbiotisho app
Technical report

This Research Framework aims to guide SPARC interventions between 2023 and 2025.
Flooding in South Sudan. Credit: Francesca Mold/UNMISS
SPARC partner publication

More than half of the 25 countries most vulnerable and least ready to adapt to climate change are affected by conflict - yet climate finance in these settings is far below the level that is needed.
 A man walks through a muddy field leading a horse
Journal article

This article argues that public policy and programmes designed to reduce poverty and strengthen resilience in drylands must be aware of their potential to undermine psychosocial climate resilience.

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