October: Pastoralist women

Documents from Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)
- (Audio) SPARC podcast episode: "Invisible, yet indispensable": Fulani pastoralist women in their own words
  - SPARC's episode 5 of Dynamic Drylands podcast interviews the Fulani pastoralist women involved in a new training programme to become community researchersnivi. The episode is available on Acast, Spotify , YouTube and Amazon Music. The transcript is available here.
- Vincent, K. (2022) Gender in agricultural and pastoral livelihoods in SPARC countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East: a review. Technical report. London, UK: SPARC Knowledge (https://doi.org/10.61755/KDWI7749).
  - This report reviews 170 studies on gender in agricultural and pastoral livelihoods across SPARC focus countries, identifying thematic trends, geographic variation and research gapsto inform future SPARC contributions.
- (Video) SPARC documentary: Charting new futures in Africa’s drylands (English and French)
  - One of the three main stories shown in this 20-minute documentary is about Dinka pastoralist women, who have turned increasingly frequent and severe flooding in Bor, South Sudan into a new business opportunity: selling fish. As the interviewees in the documentary explain, women in particular are benefiting from this change and make up the majority of sellers at markets.