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Aerial view of an arid landscape. A group of people walk.

Interview

IIED at 50: be prepared to engage with young activists

A man is surrounded by cattle on a dusty trail.

Project

Mitigating farmer-herder conflict

People and cattle in an arid landscape

Project

MOOC on ‘pastoralism in development’: an online learning journey

Lots of people park their motorbikes to gather

Interview

Q&A: How COVID-19 is impacting rural Africans in the Sahel

Men present findings on a large map at the front of a community meeting

Blog

How can we incorporate local knowledge into climate planning and policy? …Maps!

Cattle herds settle on village fields.

Blog

The Sahelian Great Green Wall: start with local solutions

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

A woman stands with three goats in shadow amid a dusty terrain

Article

Introduction to drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity

The growing economic centre of Merti town on the Ewaso Ng’iro river, arid lands of Kenya (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu)

Project

Drylands: volatile, vibrant and under-valued?

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)

Project

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

Latest publications

How have decentralised natural resource management institutions evolved over 20 years? Summary of findings from Mali, Niger, Sudan and Ethiopia

Comment les institutions de gestion décentralisée des ressources naturelles ont-elles évolué en 20 ans ? Résumé des résultats obtenus au Mali, au Niger, au Soudan et en Éthiopie

Farmer-herder conflict in sub-Saharan Africa?

Conflit entre agriculteurs et éleveurs en Afrique subsaharienne?

Conflit entre agriculteurs et éleveurs en Afrique subsaharienne ?

Local institutions: resilient in the face of change?

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A man hoeing ground that is dry and cracked.

Moving forward with communal land rights in Ethiopia: what are the legal solutions?

Blog, Jun 2022

A man is surrounded by cattle on a dusty trail.

Mitigating farmer-herder conflict

Project, Mar 2022

Aerial view of an arid landscape. A group of people walk.

IIED at 50: be prepared to engage with young activists

Interview, Nov 2021

A man and a horse plough a dry-looking field.

Drylands and climate-resilient development – valuing climatic variability

Webinar, Sep 2021

Lots of people park their motorbikes to gather

Q&A: How COVID-19 is impacting rural Africans in the Sahel

Interview, May 2021

People and cattle in an arid landscape

MOOC on ‘pastoralism in development’: an online learning journey

Project, May 2021

Remembering Adam Thiam

Blog, Mar 2021

Cattle herds settle on village fields.

The Sahelian Great Green Wall: start with local solutions

Blog, Feb 2021

Fledgling mangroves with a woman on the right of the image

Devolved Climate Finance (DCF) Alliance

Article, Jan 2021

A woman hands protective equipment to another woman.

Engaging pastoralist communities through citizen movements to amplify their voice

Case study, Dec 2020

A herd of goats.

Farmer-herder conflict: open your eyes, change the narrative, find solutions

Blog, Nov 2020

A woman farmer holds a phone to her ear in a green field.

Q&A: Using digital technology to engage citizens in climate action

Interview, Oct 2020