Horn of Africa Climate Adaptation

Landscape literacy for dryland resilience

Examining how rangeland restoration, pastoralist migration corridors, and distributed water capture hold against multi-year environmental shifts across semi-arid zones.

Field Record

Documented baseline observations

18

seasons observed

14

dryland basins documented

26

cross-border corridors mapped

42

published field briefs

Core Focus

Analytical framework and methodology

Systemic analysis bridging decentralized sand riverbed water retention with cross-border mobility.

Mobility
Hydrology
Tenure

Pastoralist corridors

Micro-catchment capture

Rangeland policy

Mapping traditional migration routes and seasonal rangeland access to maintain ecological continuity during droughts.

Documenting sand dams, subsurface water storage, and earth bunds designed for semi-arid hydrological realities.

Analyzing communal land management structures and customary governance systems across arid agroecological zones.

Field Principle

Resilience across drylands is not an emergency response; it is generational knowledge refined against shifting seasons.

Data informs the framework, but landscape literacy determines whether ecological infrastructure survives the dry season.

Initiate institutional research dialogue

Collaborating with multilateral agencies, research institutes, and regional practitioners.