SPARC Issue Brief

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Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) Issue Briefs inform more feasible and cost-effective policies and investments in the drylands of Africa and the Middle East. 

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Narratives of change: women’s reflections on evolving productive roles in the Agar Dinka community

Nyibol Elizabeth Malou, Adrian Cullis
10 December 2025

Market monitoring and localised research in extreme conflict: learning from Darfur

Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)
17 October 2025

The impact of war on trade and markets in Darfur: destruction, resilience and adaptation

Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)
14 April 2025

The war economy in Darfur: Distorting trade and fuelling conflict

Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)
14 April 2025

Darfur’s long-distance trade: impact of war and Rapid Support Forces’ trade embargo

Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)
14 April 2025

Shepherd’s eye in the sky: The potential for AfriScout digital grazing maps to improve pastoralists’ grazing and migration decisions

Sophie Turnbull, Connor Harrison
29 March 2024

Nigeria: Some land tenure insecurity issues in Hayin Ade and Wuro Bappate

Sarah Opitz-Stapleton, Obiama Egemonye, Zubairu Adamu, Umar Hassan, Aminatu Ardo Jibo, Mary Bayero, Aminu Kuba, Leigh Mayhew, Ibifuro Joy Alasia, Sarli Nana
12 April 2023

Unravelling the knot: addressing wicked problems through stakeholder engagement

Kamran Hakiman, Chloe Stull-Lane
6 April 2023

Somalia: drought and rising costs take hold

Leigh Mayhew, Ibifuro Joy Alasia, Sarah Opitz-Stapleton, ibrahim Ali Dagane, Isaac Mbeche, Muzzamil Abdi Sheikh, Samaha Yusuf Nor, Abdiaziz Mohamed Harir, Abdirahman Said Hassan, Obiama Egemonye
18 January 2023

Risques climatiques transfrontaliers pour les économies d’élevage dans les zones arides africaines

Sarah Opitz-Stapleton
13 January 2023

Transboundary climate risks to African dryland livestock economies

Sarah Opitz-Stapleton
13 January 2023

Obstacles to and opportunities for anticipatory action in Somalia

Lena Weingärtner, Alex Humphrey, Muzzamil Abdi Sheikh, Simon Levine
19 May 2022

Making the concept of resilience in the Sahel more useful

Simon Levine
21 April 2022

Understanding the role of anticipatory action in Somalia

Simon Levine, Alex Humphrey, Lena Weingärtner, Muzzamil Abdi Sheikh
29 October 2021

Resilient generation: supporting young people’s prospects for decent work in the drylands of East and West Africa

Mairi Dupar, Emma Lovell
30 September 2021

Génération résiliente : soutenir les perspectives de travail décent pour les jeunes dans les zones arides d’Afrique de l’Est et de l’Ouest

Mairi Dupar, Emma Lovell
30 September 2021

Conflict in the time of Covid-19

Leigh Mayhew, Sarah Opitz-Stapleton, Gbenga Olatunji, Alex Humphrey, Hadiza Esma’eel, Msugh Atser, Oluwafemi Olajide, Salma Aliyu, Shadrach Gideon
20 May 2021