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Agriculture in West Africa faces a double challenge.

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Central Malawi: Belia Sikelo farms groundnuts using 'conservation agriculture', a set of practices including no-till farming, designed improve soil structure and help resist erosion. (Photo: T. Samson/CIMMYT)

The UN has formally launched 2015 as the International Year of Soils. Much of IIED's work involves soils, including our work on agroecology, food and agriculture, biodiversity, adaptation to climate change, and drylands

ArticleDrylands and pastoralism, Food and agriculture, Natural resource management

Une recherche-action à long terme dans les zones arides d’Afrique de l’Est et de l’Ouest remet en question les hypothèses communément retenues en matière de pauvreté et de désertification.

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This article reflects on the long-term action research of the Drylands Programme in arid East and West Africa, which challenged common assumptions about poverty and desertification.

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The potential for economic growth and development in the arid and semi-arid lands of Northern Kenya is arguably higher than in more humid parts of the region.

PublicationDrylands and pastoralism, Climate change

The theoretical framework for the scientific understanding of the drylands is almost the opposite today of what was mainstream in the 1970s, but the methodological infrastructure of analytical tools and practices is still catching up.

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Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new book that hopes to provide some fresh perspectives on drylands development will be launched in Nairobi on 28 April
NewsCommunication, Drylands and pastoralism

I have been thinking a lot about ‘time’. It’s been prompted by three things which remind me that, while we need to be realistic about how fast we can build a fairer, more sustainable world, there are some signs of progress.

BlogClimate change, Drylands and pastoralism

In china three major rangeland management policies have caused large-scale changes for pastoral societies and rangeland ecosystems: the rangeland Household contract System (rHcS), ecological construction projects (ecps), and the Herder S

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Document begins: A simplified matrix of findings Land registration in rural areas Ethiopia Ghana Mozambique Tigray Amhara System State land - "Enclosures" Land title - Community analysed registration system registration land system - "T

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