- See more resources (videos, articles, blogs, etc.)
- Resources from FAO
- Documents from Supporting Pastoralism & Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC):
- Bedelian C (2024) How climate information services (CIS) can help pastoralists in the Horn of Africa. Policy brief. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/GEJG2628).
This explores the challenges pastoralists face when using climate information services and outlines key considerations for scaling these up in drylands. - Opitz-Stapleton S (2023) Transboundary climate risks to African dryland livestock economies. Issue brief. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge(https://doi.org/10.61755/CQMU1833).
This explores how non-climate factors such as land encroachment and resource fragmentation interact with climate change to create transboundary climate risks for pastoral systems in African drylands, challenging traditional mobility and trade. - Pichon F, Nur L, Panwar V et al. (2024) Bearing the burden: climate change-attributable losses and damages in the Sahel and Greater Horn of Africa. Technical report. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/MDLP7077).
This landmark report – which received exclusive coverage in The Independent - provides new estimates of climate-attributable losses and damages, including lives lost, agricultural damage and more, across 18 countries in the Sahel and Horn of Africa. It also reviews existing literature on indirect and non-economic losses and damages. It is accompanied by a report on losses and damage in Somalia. While not directly focused on pastoralists, the findings from this report offer very clear data of the impacts that climate change is already having across countries in Africa’s drylands. - Reid E (2024) Forecasts for pastoralists: increasing demand for weather forecasts to support adaptation in northern Kenya. Policy brief. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/AJIY2682).
This explores the low demand for formal weather forecasts among pastoralists in northern Kenya, and how better coordination and communication can align forecasts with pastoralists’ information needs.
- Bedelian C (2024) How climate information services (CIS) can help pastoralists in the Horn of Africa. Policy brief. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/GEJG2628).
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