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Blog

The champions helping communities make better food choices

Busy market scene, showing traders with their vegetables

News

Informal food markets offer diverse food products and crucial livelihood opportunities

View of a road cutting through a forest

Blog

Wild meat: is there an appetite for alternatives?

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)

Project

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

G04447

The Maize Park Biocultural Heritage Territory in Lares, Peru. Case study guidance on Biocultural Heritage Territories

G04446

Informal food markets in urban food system: policy and practice in Lusaka and Kitwe

16662IIED

Indonesia’s triple burden of malnutrition: a call for urgent policy change

17738IIED

Conservation versus food production in Africa: better managing trade-offs

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Agriculture, nature conservation or both? Managing trade-offs and synergies in sub-Saharan Africa

G04438

Policy Meeting on Establishing a Biocultural Heritage Territory/Landscape Rabai Museum, Kilifi County, Friday 30th August 2019

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Harnessing the power of bees to benefit forest and people

Blog, Mar 2020

A farmer standing in a field holds a mobile phone to her ear

Webinar: Using technology to increase market and finance access for smallholders

Event, Mar 2020

Protesting people march holding a banner

Q&A: Successful social mobilisation for land rights in Nepal

Interview, Feb 2020

A vegetable seller with a food truck peels a cucumber

Urban poor community voices take to the stage at the World Urban Forum

Blog, Feb 2020

Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees

Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity

Blog, Feb 2020

A woman using a hoe

Q&A: Achieving sustainable intensification of agriculture – decisions and trade-offs

Interview, Feb 2020

Women preparing tapioca

Tapioca tech in Togo – how producers are organising to transform lives and land

Blog, Feb 2020

The champions helping communities make better food choices

Blog, Jan 2020

A woman farmer looks at her flock of sheep

Critical theme: Small-scale farming and the future of the European food system

Event, Dec 2019

Busy market scene, showing traders with their vegetables

Informal food markets offer diverse food products and crucial livelihood opportunities

News, Nov 2019

Four young Ethiopian men standing in a field of cabbages

Africa’s evolving food systems

Project, Nov 2019

A cook serves food to a group of children

Q&A: Encouraging the availability of healthy and diverse foods for students

Interview, Oct 2019