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A pastoralist dwelling in Niger. Rural communities have learned to exploit the variability of dryland environments (Photo: IIED)
The end of desertification?
… Decades of low rainfall and severe drought in the Sahel from the late 1960s to the 1990s were the most dramatic example of climate variability in the 20th century. Until recently one word – … distorts our understanding of social-environmental systems and their resilience, particularly in countries with variable rainfall and …
Insight, 29 September 2016
A man is surrounded by cattle on a dusty trail.
Mitigating farmer-herder conflict
… Since 2012, the West African Sahel has been drawn into a spiral of ever-growing violence, fuelled by … enmity and competition for scarce resources, now aggravated by climate change, the media, policy and academic circles increasingly … widespread and increasing – as they responded to shifting politics, climate, security, demography and economy over 20 years. Working in …
Project, 04 March 2022
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Conflit entre agriculteurs et éleveurs en Afrique : repenser le phénomène ?
… Depuis 2012, le Sahel ouest-africain a été aspiré dans un tourbillon de violence sans …
Publication, 01 June 2020
Woman walking through a field, carrying a bag on her head.
How to green Africa from the grassroots
… adapt and prosper in the face of land shortages, urban migration and climate impacts. People get on with daily survival despite shortcomings … a passport’, local capacity and institutions are central to building resilience to disruption. Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has … climate variability in parts of Southern Africa, the Maghreb and Sahel are forcing a rethink of what crops to grow. Around the continent, …
Insight, 04 January 2021
Solar-radiation management aims to reduce the amount of solar energy warming the planet by blocking the sun with tiny particles (Photo: Mike, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Geoengineering and development – what price on equity and justice in the coming climate culture wars?
… The debate on geoengineering as a potential approach for addressing climate change has been hotting up over the last year. This is partly … eruptions in the northern hemisphere and instances of drought in the Sahel. The risks are complex and Morton argues that it may be feasible … land rights, it can also have positive impacts on poverty reduction, resilience, and local and regional weather. The second important …
Insight, 20 December 2017
The Nebbou area, between Ouagadougou and Leo, a dry reservoir used for the manufacture of handmade bricks in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR))
Archive of completed drylands and pastoralist projects
… This video exploring the impact of climate change on pastoralists living in the drylands is one of many … 25 ans dans les zones arides . Understanding pastoral livelihoods and climate change This project aimed to better understand pastoral … availability and extraction rates.  Long-term change in the Malian Sahel: portrait of Dlonguebougou village IIED has documented  social and …
Article, 17 December 2012
Report warns of future food crises in Africa's poorest nations
… The warning that millions of people in the Sahel region of Africa are as vulnerable as ever to famine comes in a … and giving people a voice in how decisions are made. Building local resilience is key to reducing vulnerability." Dr Youba Sokona, executive … of the Observatory of the Sahel and Sahara in Tunisia, warns that climate change could make people in the Sahel even more vulnerable to …
News, 10 July 2007
Mary Tiffen headshot
Remembering Mary Tiffen, a drylands pioneer
… IIED's Publications Library Find out more about IIED's work to build climate resilience, productivity and equity in the dryland areas of East Africa, Ethiopia, the Sahel and Sudan Gill Shepherd, a former colleague of Mary Tiffen at ODI, …
Article, 01 June 2020
WoDaabe pastoralists are one of the most mobile and specialised pastoral communities in the Sahel (Photo: Stephen Anderson)
Supporting pastoral mobility in East and West Africa
… in ten countries across East and West Africa, including:   Mali (with Sahel Eco) Burkina Faso (with CEFRAP) Niger-Nigeria (with Billatal Maroobe and AREN) Chad (with IRAM) Sudan (with SOS Sahel-Sudan) Ethiopia-Somaliland (with SOS Sahel-Ethiopia; Tufts University and Save the Children/USA) Senegal … Climate change …
Project, 17 December 2012
Seydou Kassojue, 47, has a garden plot where he grows lettuce close to the Sélingué dam in Mali. The Global Water Initiative has been working with smallholders in the area since 2009 to find out how the dam affects the livelihoods of local farmers and what improvements could be made (Photo: Mike Goldwater/GWI)
Can dams work for local communities alongside national good?
… security and energy needs, particularly in the context of increasing climate variability. In West Africa there are 150 existing dams and 40 … on GWI Related publications Briefing: Irrigated agriculture and resilience of family farms – a clash of perspectives Briefing: Obtaining … on rice farming in three large dam-irrigated areas in the Sahel Factsheet:  Dams in Guinea: proposals for achieving local …
News, 18 August 2015