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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.

Dynamic Drylands
Audio and podcasts

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.
Guelta d'Archei waterhole near oasis, Ennedi Plateau, Chad, Africa. Image by Beata Tabak / shutterstock.
Technical report

This study assesses Chad’s capacity to plan for, access, use, monitor and report on climate finance.

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  • Understanding land and conflict
Kodet Abraham harvests fodder that he has grown for his livestock, Karamoja, Uganda, 2021. Image by Ezra Millstein / Mercy Corps Technical report

Northern Uganda continues to cope with the aftermath of war, despite millions of dollars in aid and numerous post-war development programmes.
A community focus group being held with pastoralists from the Waldaa community - Image by Ken Otieno Technical report

This report aims to deepen understanding of land tenure in pastoral lands under collective ownership, taking a case from northern Marsabit, Kenya.
Researchers interview Wakilé Allah pastoralists from Tigre, in the commune of Binde - Image by Issa Sawadogo / SPARC Technical report

This report reviews land tenure for pastoralism and its governance in southern Burkina Faso, and outlines steps that can be taken to safeguard pastoralists’ tenure.
Scenes from Al Nnuhoud Livestock Market, North Kordofan – Image by Salahaldeen Nadir / World Bank Technical report

This report reviews the significance of pastoralism in Sudan, formal tenure systems and their governance, and tribal systems.
Out to pasture - Herders guide their cattle back to the pasture, Zorro village, Bukina Faso - Image by by Ollivier Girard CIFOR -CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED Technical report

This consolidated study explores pastoral collective tenure and degrees of tenure security in pastoral systems in Kenya, Sudan and Burkina Faso.
A man tends his livestock in Sankabar Kebele, the Somali region of Ethiopia. Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia.

This report, commissioned midway through SPARC’s six-year run, synthesises the programme's work in the period 2020 to mid-2023.
Man walking with camels in Kenya - Photo by Curt Carnemark / World Bank - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED

This brief outlines a preliminary research framework developed by SPARC and the CGIAR Research Initiative on Fragility, Conflict and Migration on conflict between farmers and livestock herders.
CLI-MARK works with livestock farmers’ and pastoralists’ in Kenya - Image by CLI-MARK Kenya - CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED

This report, and accompanying brief, align current thinking on transboundary climate risk pathways with research on climate risk for pastoralists in African rangelands.
Local farmers in Khost Province Afghanistan - image by Resolute Support Media - CC BY 2.0 DEED

This policy brief looks at why aid practitioners' governance reforms in Afghanistan failed to understand or engage with existing village-level governance structures.

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