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View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory

Project

Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development

A cook serves up the daily soup at the Achumani market in La Paz (Photo: Mauricio Panoso)

News

IIED and partners urge citizen involvement in international food policy debate

A typical milk bar in Kenya (Photo: Dave Elsworth/ILRI)

Project

MoreMilk – reviewing policy options for the informal dairy trade

Air balloon photograph of children while mapping Mathare informal settlement, Nairobi.

Long read

Mapping for food safety

A stall-holder measures her produce in a marketplace (Photo: Hivos Bolivia)

Project

Sustainable diets for all

Farmers checking cotton plants in Eastern Zambia

Photo story

Cotton at a crossroads

Resilience in agricultural and food systems

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A conservation agriculture demonstration at the Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust, Zambia. Conservation agriculture can increase productivity and improve soil structure (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)

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Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture

People sitting in a pasture

Project

International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)

View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory

Project

Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development

Publications

17707SIIED

Desarrollo de una marca biocultural mundial para apoyar los paisajes indígenas

17654IIED

Rebalancing power in global food chains through a “Ways of Working” approach: an experience from Kenya

13611IIED

Creating enabling conditions for managing food production and forest conservation trade-offs in Africa. Case studies from Ethiopia and Zambia

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Beyond maize: Exploring agricultural diversification in Zambia from different perspectives

16657IIED

Informal food vendors and their role in the food and nutrition security of low-income workers in Bandung City, Indonesia

17652IIED

Food production, agricultural expansion and deforestation in Mai-Ndombe, DRC

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Women sell bananas at stalls at a market

Healthy Diets Week Twitter chat

News, Oct 2019

Rows of small dishes containing various types of vegetable seeds, including beans and grains

Madagascar needs agroforestry businesses in its response to climate change

Blog, Sep 2019

fresh green beans

Rebalancing power in the Kenya-UK green bean value chain

Blog, Sep 2019

A woman picks fresh greens

Beyond maize: exploring agricultural diversification in Zambia

Blog, Aug 2019

Roadside stalls

For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings

Blog, Aug 2019

A food vendor is surrounded by people in a busy street

The two faces of Bandung’s street food: recreation and reliance

Blog, Aug 2019

People gather around a table at an outdoor meeting

Tackling widespread hunger in cities means listening to the urban poor

Blog, Aug 2019

An African man makes a speech in front of a banner in Chinese

Our previous work on China

Article, Aug 2019

Three men look out over a pond

China in the world

Article, Aug 2019

A buffet of Ugandan food

Science with citizens, or science for citizens?

Blog, Jul 2019

People sitting in a pasture

International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)

Project, Jun 2019

A women puts food into an outdoor oven

Keeping Bolivia’s culture alive through food

Blog, Jun 2019