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A woman stands with her goats in a dryland area in Niger.

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Introduction to Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity

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

Blog

Notes from the field – Dlonguebougou, Mali

Stormclouds gather over the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, where aid agencies provide emergency help, but long-term planning is needed to deal with wider environmental stresses (Photo: Hadi Jaafar, Diane Archer, Akram Hajj Hassan and Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)

Project

Unblocking the cycle of water stress, crises and innovation in drylands

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)

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Rainfall, grazing, families and land in Dlonguebougou

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

Blog

How oceans dried out the Sahel

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

Blog

The end of desertification?

Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity

Building climate resilience, productivity and equity in the drylands

Stormclouds gather over the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, where aid agencies provide emergency help, but long-term planning is needed to deal with wider environmental stresses (Photo: Hadi Jaafar, Diane Archer, Akram Hajj Hassan and Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)

Project

Unblocking the cycle of water stress, crises and innovation in drylands

A community discusses water and energy challenges in Alango, Kenya (Photo: Ibrahim Jarso, Resource Advocacy Program)

Project

Participatory investment planning for environment, water and energy in arid and uncertain environments

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

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Drylands: volatile, vibrant and under-valued?

Publications

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Participatory resource mapping

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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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Vegetation resources and their economic importance in Isiolo County, Kenya

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

Notes from the field – Dlonguebougou, Mali

Blog, Apr 2017

Stormclouds gather over the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, where aid agencies provide emergency help, but long-term planning is needed to deal with wider environmental stresses (Photo: Hadi Jaafar, Diane Archer, Akram Hajj Hassan and Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)

Unblocking the cycle of water stress, crises and innovation in drylands

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

A community discusses water and energy challenges in Alango, Kenya (Photo: Ibrahim Jarso, Resource Advocacy Program)

Participatory investment planning for environment, water and energy in arid and uncertain environments

Project, Aug 2016

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

Drylands: volatile, vibrant and under-valued?

Project, Jul 2016

The new university in Ségou. Mali's capital city, Bamako, is the nation's political and economic power base – greater decentralisation will bring many benefits (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)

Four challenges facing Mali amid efforts to rebuild

Blog, Jun 2016

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

Local climate finance funding community-prioritised adaptation

Project, Nov 2015

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

Responding to climate change in East Africa by strengthening dryland governance and planning

Project, Oct 2015

The cover and an extract from the book 'Valuing variability – new perspectives on climate resilient drylands development'' (Image: IIED)

Pastoralism less impacted by climate change than industrial farming

Press release, Sep 2015