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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

This consolidated study explores pastoral collective tenure and degrees of tenure security in pastoral systems in Kenya, Sudan and Burkina Faso.
FUDECO researchers interview communities in Wuro Bappate - Photo by Zubairu Adamu / FUDECO

This is the third in a series of longitudinal studies into the political, socioeconomic and environmental issues facing pastoralists and agropastoralists in Hayin Ade and Wuro Alhaji Idrissa Bappate.
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.

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Dinka herder demonstrating other uses of soot from the fire in Jonglei, South Sudan - Image by Kuch Maluk Blog

In this blog, we share how our research with Dinka pastoralists in South Sudan is deepening our understanding of ways to build gender-responsive climate resilient communities.
Woman with mobile phone in Kenya - Image by J Mulwa/Mercy Corps Blog

Our blog explores what tech firms, agroproducers, private sector actors, government, Non-Governmental Organisations and donors need to know about the impact of social media in the drylands.
A Saudi returnee with a mobile phone returns to her home in Ethiopia - image by Ayene / UNICEF - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED Blog

Digital financial and information services can transform the livelihoods of agro producers across Ethiopia. This blog - based on a SPARC, Dalberg Research and Mercy Corps AgriFin event - explains how.

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