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

Webinar

Drylands and climate-resilient development – valuing climatic variability

Lots of people park their motorbikes to gather

Interview

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

People and cattle in an arid landscape

Project

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

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!

A woman hands protective equipment to another woman.

Case study

Engaging pastoralist communities through citizen movements to amplify their voice

Cattle herds settle on village fields.

Blog

The Sahelian Great Green Wall: start with local solutions

UN climate change conference (COP26)

IIED at the 2021 UNFCCC climate change summit in Glasgow More in this collection

Four images of people from IIED's 2021 'super year' video, including a fisher hauling nets

Events

IIED and the 2021 ‘super year’

People of all ages marching holding posters. One poster reads "protect all like on our planet"; another poster reads "no more blah blah blah"

Blog

COP27 and the important year ahead

Piles of bags and jerrycans. Men pick some of them up.

Blog

Tackling loss and damage: who is most vulnerable to disaster displacement?

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 her goats in a dryland area in Niger (Photo: Stephen Anderson)

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

Conflit entre agriculteurs et éleveurs en Afrique subsaharienne?

Conflit entre agriculteurs et éleveurs en Afrique subsaharienne ?

Farmer-herder conflict in sub-Saharan Africa?

Local institutions: resilient in the face of change?

Farmer-herder conflict in Africa: rethinking the phenomenon?

Résilience institutionnelle face au changement

We have 74 items under Drylands and pastoralism

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

Remembering Mary Tiffen, a drylands pioneer

Article, Jun 2020

Two women draw water from a well

Land, investment and migration: a portrait of village life in Mali

Webinar, Jun 2020

Book summary: Land, investment and migration: thirty-five years of village life in Mali

Article, Mar 2020