Food and agriculture | International Institute for Environment and Development

People sit around a desk and talk into microphones

Podcast

What makes a sustainable diet? And who decides? Make Change Happen podcast episode 5

A man and woman standing in a field

Case study

Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms

a vegetable seller and customers

Blog

The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the diets of Hanoi’s urban poor

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

Sustainable intensification of agriculture

Case studies exploring trade-offs made by farming households in three countries More in this collection

A woman farmer bends over to tend crops in a field

News

One-size-fits-all policies won’t deliver sustainable farming in Africa

A man and woman standing in a field

Case study

Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms

Two women sitting in a field

Case study

No room for manoeuvre: debt prevents investing in the future

Resilience in agricultural and food systems

How IIED is building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems More in this collection

An elderly woman in a field holds crops in the air with both hands

Project

Indigenous food systems, biocultural heritage and agricultural resilience

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

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“Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains

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Food and forests: understanding agriculture and conservation trade-offs in Ghana

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Food and Forests: Understanding agriculture and conservation trade-offs in Zambia

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Food and forests: understanding agriculture and conservation trade-offs in Ethiopia

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Putting indigenous foods and food systems at the heart of sustainable food and nutrition security in Uganda

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Aprendizajes desde la gente: las voces de les vendedoras en los comedores de los mercados populares en La Paz

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Women are sat at tables selling food a distance apart

Uganda’s hungry food vendors: counting the cost of COVID-19

Blog, Jun 2020

Remembering Mary Tiffen, a drylands pioneer

Article, Jun 2020

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Using technology to overcome challenges for farmers in value chains

Blog, May 2020

A dish of amatehe

Protecting indigenous foods, preserving biodiversity – the solutions are in nature

Blog, May 2020

A stallholder in front of a food stall

Resilient food systems and COVID-19: lessons for a Just Transition

Blog, May 2020

Women farmers bending over planting crops in a paddy field

Curbing the impacts of COVID-19 on Nepal’s small-scale farmers and seizing opportunities for food system reform

Blog, May 2020

People eating at the market

Citizen-led research serves up answers on what Bolivian food vendors want

Blog, May 2020

People sit around a desk and talk into microphones

What makes a sustainable diet? And who decides? Make Change Happen podcast episode 5

Podcast, May 2020

Two women sitting in a field

No room for manoeuvre: debt prevents investing in the future

Case study, Apr 2020

A man and woman standing in a field

Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms

Case study, Apr 2020

A woman farmer bends over to tend crops in a field

One-size-fits-all policies won’t deliver sustainable farming in Africa

News, Apr 2020

a vegetable seller and customers

The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the diets of Hanoi’s urban poor

Blog, Apr 2020