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 is SPARC's podcast which explores new ways of thinking about aid, development and resilience in the drylands of Africa and the Middle East.
Rooted in local realities and community voices, this report highlights how conflict and climate interact and identifies practical entry points for recovery and resilience in Syria’s agri-food sector.
This brief provides policymakers and donors with an integrated picture of how climate and conflict interact across value chains and shape daily realities in Syria.
This brief relays key learning points from pioneering a locally led approach to market monitoring, analysis and research in a context of extreme conflict and insecurity across Sudan's Darfur region.
This brief looks at what ‘people-centred’ EWS means, particular challenges of improving it in conflicts and recurring crises, and the implication of a knowledge-system way of thinking about EWS.
This brief suggests how to think differently about DRR in conflicts, rather than how to implement it, and draws on evidence that it is necessary and possible even in conflicts and recurring crises.
This policy brief reflects SPARC’s learning on why the main models used by the international humanitarian community for planning anticipatory action show limited promise in difficult places and what alternative approaches might be more helpful.
SPARC's new documentary shines a spotlight on one of the most critical, but marginalised livelihoods in Africa – and paints a rarely seen picture of the dynamism of people living in the drylands.
This brief explores how trade fuels conflict through the war economy in Darfur and highlights consequences for established traders, with the aim of informing market-oriented humanitarian programming.
