Drylands and pastoralism

With research, training and advocacy, we help build climate resilience, productivity and equity in the dryland areas of East Africa, Ethiopia, the Sahel and Sudan

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Decentralising Climate Funds

Climate finance

Climate change adaptation funds

Green Climate Fund (GCF)

People and cattle in an arid landscape

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

Began January 2021

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

IIED at 50: be prepared to engage with young activists

29 November 2021

Cattle herds settle on village fields.

The Sahelian Great Green Wall: start with local solutions

Camilla Toulmin and Ian Scoones
04 February 2021

Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Programme

September 2022 - ongoing

Pastoralism in Development: a learning journey – free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Man and woman fill up jerry cans with water from a fountain

Water access in the drylands – what’s not working?

Claire Bedelian
11 November 2022

Man, wearing red and black and holding a stick, walks with cattle

Valuing a traditional lifestyle: how Maasai herders are being paid to protect nature and combat climate change

Jo Anderson
19 October 2022

A man hoeing ground that is dry and cracked.

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

Nathaniah Jacobs and Daniel Behailu
24 June 2022

A man is surrounded by cattle on a dusty trail.

Mitigating farmer-herder conflict

April 2017 - March 2019

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

IIED at 50: be prepared to engage with young activists

29 November 2021

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

Drylands and climate-resilient development – valuing climatic variability

Event on 29 September 2021

Related collections

Learn more about focused areas of IIED's drylands and pastoralism work

Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity

A programme of work showing how IIED is building capacity to act on the implications of climate change for equitable and climate resilient development in the drylands

Mobilising money to where it matters

A programme of work helping to initiate a positive shift in the quantity and quality of climate finance reaching the local level to support locally-led solutions that address climate change, poverty and biodiversity loss

Publications

View more Drylands and pastoralism publications

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Pastoralism in Uganda: theory, practice and policy

20906g.pdf

Pastoralism and pastoral policy in Ethiopia

17763IIED.pdf

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

10208IIED.pdf

Farmer-herder conflict in sub-Saharan Africa?

7297IIED.pdf

Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty in Africa's Drylands: The social dimensions of desertification

7325IIED.pdf

Property Concepts, Herding Patterns and Management of Natural Resources Among the Ngorongoro and Salei Maasai of Tanzania

6035IIED.pdf

Displaced Pastoralists and Transferred Wheat Technology in Tanzania

7403IIED.pdf

Pastoral Land Tenure and Agricultural Expansion: Sudan and the Horn of Africa

9027IIED.pdf

Science, Use Rights and Exclusion: A history of foresty in Francophone West Africa

12510IIED.pdf

Ensuring access to water resources

Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Programme

Active Project

Pastoralism in Development: a learning journey – free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Article

Man and woman fill up jerry cans with water from a fountain

Water access in the drylands – what’s not working?

Blog, 11 November 2022

Man, wearing red and black and holding a stick, walks with cattle

Valuing a traditional lifestyle: how Maasai herders are being paid to protect nature and combat climate change

Blog, 19 October 2022

A man hoeing ground that is dry and cracked.

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

Blog, 24 June 2022

A man is surrounded by cattle on a dusty trail.

Mitigating farmer-herder conflict

Archived Project

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

IIED at 50: be prepared to engage with young activists

Article, 29 November 2021

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

Drylands and climate-resilient development – valuing climatic variability

Event on 29 September 2021

Lots of people park their motorbikes to gather

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

Article, 26 May 2021

People and cattle in an arid landscape

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

Active Project