A hot wind sweeps across the rocky brush of Camp Simpirre in northern Kenya’s Isiolo county. Baboons cross the pathway to the ...

A current major focus of the group’s research is on climate impacts on water and food security in East African drylands. This involves several funded multidisciplinary research programmes focused on ...

The Decade is an opportunity to make critical changes to secure the long-term ability of drylands to provide value for humanity's well being. The goals and objectives of the Decade flow directly ...

Preventing Child Wasting in Africa's Dryland: An Exploratory Review of the Enabling Environment in 8 Sub-Saharan Countries Using a Food Systems Lens.

Oba, author of several works on the history of environmental change in Africa, is a renowned expert on pastoralist communities. We spoke to him at the Drylands Summer School, a convention of East ...