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Policy brief

The brief draws upon interviews and participatory workshops to provide practical recommendations on how to implement GTAs in pastoral areas.
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Book

This book brings together contributions from diverse disciplinary perspectives to explore the intersecting themes shaping the future of mobile pastoralism in Africa’s drylands.
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Policy brief

This study investigates pastoralists’ perceptions of the risks they face and how this influences adoption of innovations.
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Technical report

This report looks at change within peoples livelihoods, the conditions that allow change to occur and spread, and the barriers which prevent change from spreading to other people and places.

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Blog

Three lessons on how agile collaboration enables rigorous research in tough environments.

A group of women stand over containers filled with milk
Blog

At this year's LANDac Land Conference, SPARC shared evidence from pastoralists in Sudan, South Sudan and Nigeria on how land governance in drylands can create sustainable, gender-inclusive change.
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Blog

SPARC has partnered with the Kenyan government and IGAD to map - for the first time - the country's major livestock routes.

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