… I joined IIED in November 1987 to set up the drylands programme . What was it attracted me to IIED? To be honest, I … had a fax machine, so there wasn't anyone to communicate with. The drylands programme, which I set up, aimed to reframe the debate about … of our work on land rights, tenure and common property, especially pastoralism, which we started in the early 1990s, and then hooked up …