Alongside our research and convening activities, we build the capacities of dryland stakeholders to manage environmental shocks through the Dryland Futures Academy. It aims to deliver face to face, online and blended learning through several pathways:

• Dryland leadership: This pathway is for early career professionals who aim to grow their expertise on drylands and the tools that they need to be future leaders on drylands food security early action and related issues.
• Continuing education: This pathway aims to develop capacities through taught and self-study short professional, technical and academic courses, designed and delivered with regional institutions.
• Academic and formal education: This pathways aims to provide a wider range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and vocational training in which individuals can advance their learning on dryland issues.
• Community skills sharing: This pathway focuses on pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities themselves, facilitating their sharing and gaining livelihood and resilience building knowledge and skills – through “peer to peer” learning methodologies, exchanging local and indigenous knowledge, and other forms of individual and collective or social learning.