The Sahel: How Past Droughts Are Fueling Today’s Floods (Le Mag)
The article describes how the Sahel’s extreme droughts from 1970 to 1995 permanently changed soil and hydrological processes, resulting in…
How sustainable land management practices may impact water resources in the Sahel: Insights from an integrated critical zone modelling approach (Journal of Hydrology)
This work uses the ParFlow-CLM hydrological model and field observations to assess the hydrological effects of sustainable land management (SLM)…
Audio and Key Insights: sahara-sahel.org, 3 May 2026 (Policyinstitute.net)
(sahara-sahel.org) – The Sahel is currently facing a compounding crisis where a security escalation in Mali, but more generally political…
Audio and Key Insights: sahara-sahel.org, 6 April 2026 (Policyinstitute.net)
(sahara-sahel.org) – The gist of this edition’s texts are that in Africa’s Sahel and broader dry belt, overlapping crises—water scarcity,…
Impact of climate-smart agricultural technologies adoption on food security in the West African Sahel: evidence from Mali and Niger (European Commission)
Using data from Mali and Niger and sophisticated econometric models, this study examines how climate-smart agricultural technologies (CSAT) affect food…
Advanced practices in gender lens investing: Sahel Capital (Criterion Institute)
This study makes the case that attaining gender equality in finance necessitates a fundamental change in how investment decisions are…
Audio and Key Insights: sahara-sahel.org, 27 February 2026 (Policyinstitute.net)
Main points of the texts on climate shocks, conflicts, new strategic needs, resilience partnership, hunger and social protection, modern water‑satisfaction…
Local Solutions, Global Urgency: Addressing climate, conflict, and fragility in the Sahel and Horn of Africa (OXFAM)
In collaboration with local actors in Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, Ethiopia, and Somalia, Oxfam conducted pilot studies between 2024 and…
Improved Food Security in the Sahel (The Borgen Project)
More than 300 million people in the Sahel region suffer from chronic hunger as a result of extreme food insecurity…
Responding faster to droughts with satellites and adaptive social protection in Niger (World Bank)
This article describes how Niger is responding swiftly and efficiently to droughts, which often endanger livelihoods and food security, by…
ICRISAT–Niger Partnership Sets New Benchmark for Resilient Agriculture in Africa’s Drylands (CGIAR)
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Niger’s long-standing collaboration is cited in the article as…
Audio and Key Insights: sahara-sahel.org, 12 December 2025 (Policyinstitute.net)
Main points of the texts on drought trends in Mali, empowering displaced women, two decades of inequality, and the “Great…