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25 years in the drylands
… This article reflects on the long-term action research of the Drylands Programme in arid East and West Africa, which … Drylands and pastoralism … 25 years in the drylands …
Publication, 01 March 2012
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A House Full of Trap Doors: Identifying barriers to resilient drylands in the toolbox of pastoral development
… The theoretical framework for the scientific understanding of the drylands is almost the opposite today of what was mainstream in the … Drylands and pastoralism … A House Full of Trap Doors: Identifying barriers to resilient drylands in the toolbox of pastoral development …
Publication, 01 May 2015
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New perspectives on climate resilient drylands development
… a one-year project entitled `New perspectives on climate resilient drylands development'. Funded by the Ford Foundation, the project aims to formulate a more progressive narrative of the drylands, to those currently articulated by many global and public … systems, the premises and evidence used in its support. These research findings were presented and discussed at a workshop in Kenya on …
Publication, 01 January 2013
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New perspectives on climate resilient drylands development: Refining the arguments
… a 1-year project entitled New perspectives on climate resilient drylands development. Funded by the Ford Foundation, the project aims to formulate a more progressive narrative of the drylands, to those currently articulated by many global and public … systems, the premises and evidence used in its support. These research findings were presented and discussed at a workshop in Kenya …
Publication, 01 January 2013
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Overview of drylands development communication initiatives in Africa
… Haramata, IIED's bulletin of the drylands, is advocating African perspectives on the future of Africa’s drylands. In response to an evaluation of Haramata, IIED is exploring … Africa-based editorial management and responsibility to provide a research-policy-practice platform for debating and disseminating African …
Publication, 01 March 2009
Somali and Boran pastoralists came together to discuss ways to share water resources at a meeting this month. (Credit: James Pattison)
Kenya: The importance of cross-border dialogue in the drylands
… at appropriate scales has long been regarded as essential in the drylands where mobility allows pastoralists to capitalise on the highly … new government structures and systems are taking shape in the drylands. Designing a platform and allocating resources for regular … by the ADA Consortium. In the coming weeks IIED will publish research on the Boran customary resource institutions. …
Insight, 19 March 2014
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Dryland resilience-building under a difficult and changing climate - the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
Publication, 01 October 2016
A man herds goats amid the dust
Responding to climate change in Kenya by strengthening dryland governance and planning
Project, 06 March 2018
A man is surrounded by cattle on a dusty trail.
Mitigating farmer-herder conflict
… neither recent history nor surveys of armed violence. This IIED-AFD research aimed to understand the roots, dynamics and meaning of these … analysis behind much recent comment about conflict in Africa.  Our research shows that, although total levels of violence have risen in the … Drylands and pastoralism …
Project, 04 March 2022
Resource scouts such as Abdelkader, pictured in the Ewaso Ng'iro river bed, Isiolo County, gauge how best to use dry-season grazing areas (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)
The economics of local adaptation in the dryland ecosystems of Isiolo County
Insight, 22 April 2015