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Sheep grazing dry season pastures in Mopti, Mali (Photo: Near East Foundation)

Project

Decentralising Climate Funds in Mali and Senegal

A woman stands with her goats in a dryland area in Niger (Photo: Stephen Anderson)

Article

Introduction to Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity

A pastoralist dwelling in Niger. Rural communities have learned to exploit the variability of dryland environments (Photo: IIED)

Blog

The end of desertification?

A sunset in rural Mali: a new day is dawning towards securing the land rights of rural communities (Photo: Kurt Paterson, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Article

Q&A: How a new law in Mali is securing villagers' rights to land

Dlonguebougou, is a village of 1,500 people in the commune of N'Koumandougou, on the northern edge in central Mali (Image: Google Maps)

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Long-term change in the Malian Sahel: portrait of Dlonguebougou village

Divisional Adaptation Planning Committees (DAPCs) act as community focal points (Photo: Sam Greene/IIED)

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Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation

Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity

How IIED is building capacity to act on the implications of climate change for equitable and climate resilient development in the drylands More in this collection

Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)

Dlonguebougou, is a village of 1,500 people in the commune of N'Koumandougou, on the northern edge in central Mali (Image: Google Maps)

Project

Long-term change in the Malian Sahel: portrait of Dlonguebougou village

Although aid agencies provide emergency help in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, only long-term planning can deal with the wider environmental stresses (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)

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Unblocking the cycle of water stress, crises and innovation in the Bekaa Valley

Publications

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Going local: fast tracking climate finance to the most vulnerable

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Participatory resource mapping

X00172

The End of Desertification? Disputing environmental change in the drylands

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Decentralising climate finance to reach the most vulnerable

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Direct use values of climate-dependent ecosystem services in Isiolo County, Kenya

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Distilling the value of water investments

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Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)

Project, Jul 2018

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaking the World Economic Forum in 2017 (Photo: Jakob Polacsek/World Economic Forum, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: getting indigenous women's voices heard on the SDGs

Article, May 2018

Water is conserved at a devolved climate finance project site in Zanzibar

Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning

Project, Mar 2018

A young Maasai herder sees a future in pastoralism (Photo: gritty.org)

Responding to climate change in Kenya by strengthening dryland governance and planning

Project, Mar 2018

Dlonguebougou, is a village of 1,500 people in the commune of N'Koumandougou, on the northern edge in central Mali (Image: Google Maps)

Long-term change in the Malian Sahel: portrait of Dlonguebougou village

Project, Aug 2017

A sunset in rural Mali: a new day is dawning towards securing the land rights of rural communities (Photo: Kurt Paterson, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: How a new law in Mali is securing villagers' rights to land

Article, Aug 2017

Oxen plough teams bring bigger fields and easier farmwork (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)

Notes from the field – Dlonguebougou, Mali

Blog, Apr 2017

Although aid agencies provide emergency help in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, only long-term planning can deal with the wider environmental stresses (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)

Unblocking the cycle of water stress, crises and innovation in the Bekaa Valley

Project, Jan 2017

The University of Southampton made a series of large scale photos of the village ranging from 1952 to 2016. Toulmin met with villagers to discuss what the images might mean for the future (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)

Rainfall, grazing, families and land in Dlonguebougou

Blog, Nov 2016

A dust storm looms over the drylands of the Sahel (Photo: Marie Monimart/IIED)

How oceans dried out the Sahel

Blog, Oct 2016

A pastoralist dwelling in Niger. Rural communities have learned to exploit the variability of dryland environments (Photo: IIED)

The end of desertification?

Blog, Sep 2016

A pastoralist with camels in Niger. Pastoralists use resources flexibly and adapt to climate variability more easily than many other groups. State policies that favour settled agriculture are more of a challenge (Photo: Stephen Andersen/IIED)

Does climate change cause conflicts in the Sahel?

Blog, Sep 2016