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 builds on earlier SPARC-IDRC research on food prices in Mali and Sudan by looking at subsequent price changes and their drivers, effects, and public responses from 2023 to mid-2025.
This journal article assesses the persistence of pastoral livelihoods despite far-reaching social, political, economic, and technological change over the last 45 years (1975–2020).
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.
These appendices accompany a report that evaluates AfriScout Steward, a digital app used in Kenya to provide data on rangelands, and AfriScout Regen, an app that provides grazing support in Ethiopia.
This brief highlights key learnings for policymakers from research that explores the causal impact of two intervention models designed to support pastoralists in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Drawing on six years of research, this synthesis report outlines practical ways to make aid in fragile drylands more flexible, locally grounded and effective.
This policy brief outlines actions policymakers and donors can take to strengthen Ethiopia's goat value chain and drive behaviour change and resilience.
This report examines if crowdsourcing app KAZNET can be used to collect data on drought impacts and improve early warning systems and index-based drought risk financing and insurance products.
This paper presents a scoping review of literature to assess what is known on WCIS for pastoralists from Web of Science, Google Scholar and selected organisations working in these fields.
This book brings together contributions from diverse disciplinary perspectives to explore the intersecting themes shaping the future of mobile pastoralism in Africa’s drylands.
