- Documents from Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)
- Derbyshire, S.F., Mohamed, T.S., Banerjee, R., et al. (2024) Anticipatory actionin the drylands: steps toward centring pastoralist knowledge. Brief. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI (https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138679).
- This SPARC partner brief makes a case for more locally tailored and flexible anticipatory action in drylands, highlighting the need for adaptable financing, robust local profiles andstronger knowledge- sharing networks to support pastoralist resilience.
- Elshamahi, M., Humphrey, A. and Reid, E. (2021) Living with compounding livelihoodshocks: how agropastoralists in Nigeria’s drylands are coping and adapting. Discussionpaper. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/KYVD7923).
- This discussion paper explores how agropastoral communities in Nigeria are coping with compounding shocks, including COVID-19. The authors highlight diverse livelihoodimpacts, uneven aid perceptions and emerging adaptation strategies.
- Flintan F., Anbacha, A., Ebro, A., et al. (2025) Food aid, sharing and resilience:the role of collectivity and connectivity in drought-affected pastoralist systems inEthiopia. Policy brief. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/LFOE7507).
- This policy brief summarises the core findings of a study on the sharing of food aid andother types of aid as a coping strategy across two consecutive droughts in pastoral areas ofEthiopia. Communities were heavily dependent on food aid to help them through the drought period, not only in directly supplementing diet, but also as something to share by communities reliant on local social networks and reciprocal support systems.
- Humphrey, A., Levine, S., Gai, J.T., et al. (2023) Dynamism in the drylands of SouthSudan. Technical report. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge(https://doi.org/10.61755/ADAF8347).
- This report explores how pastoralists in South Sudan are navigating repeated climate andconflict shocks, with a focus on immediate coping responses and how these are reshaping long-term livelihood goals and perceptions of pastoralism.
- Humphrey A., Stites E., Gai T., et al. (2023) Faced with floods: shifting livelihoodstrategies among South Sudan’s pastoralists. Technical report. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/XBWK3559).
- This report investigates how pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in Unity State, South Sudan, are adjusting their livelihoods in response to conflict and climate shocks, and considerswhether these changes signal temporary coping mechanisms or longer-term shifts.
- Levine, S., Weingärtner, L., Humphrey A., et al. (2023) Anticipatory action in advance of ‘wicked crises’: insights from a real-time study of people’s lives inSomalia, 2020–2022. Technical report. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/CXKD1254).
- This report explores how farmers and pastoralists in Somalia responded to early drought warnings between 2020 and 2022, showing that limited local options constrained action andunderscoring the need for long-term investment in flexible, locally grounded strategies.
- Derbyshire, S.F., Mohamed, T.S., Banerjee, R., et al. (2024) Anticipatory actionin the drylands: steps toward centring pastoralist knowledge. Brief. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI (https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138679).
Support implementation of IYRP 2026!