Focusing on pastoralist areas, the SUNARPA team analyses and assesses:

• the nexus between environmental governance, environmental quality and the well-being of pastoralists
• the dimension of law: constitutional rights, national, regional, legal policy frameworks and customary law
• the relationship between natural resource management, gender and conflict the relationship between different tenure systems and their impact on natural resources and conflicts
• security and armed conflicts
• the livestock production systems and market supply
• the interaction between pastoral and farming systems
• territoriality, identity and conflict
• traditional mechanisms of conflict resolution
• the impact of policies on pastoral livelihoods and vice versa (multi-level perspective)
• strategies of management, rehabilitation and conservation of natural resources
• the dynamics of adapting to climate change & variability, desertification
• the regional & cross-border dimension

The SUNARPA team provides evidence-based know-how and advice to policy makers and development actors.