Food and agriculture | International Institute for Environment and Development

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Project

Towards planet and people-positive agriculture in East Africa

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Annual review video

Sustainable fisheries in Myanmar

Jack fruit vendor spreads out their wares on the ground.

Blog

Putting informal food systems at the centre of sustainable diets

A group of people gather around a pile of potatoes with mountains as a backdrop

Blog

Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity

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Podcast

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

a vegetable seller and customers

Blog

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

Sustainable intensification of agriculture

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

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News

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

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Case study

Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms

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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

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

Latest publications

Agri-food systems that work for people and planet: challenges and opportunities from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda

Indigenous food systems, biocultural heritage and the SDGs: challenges, interdisciplinary research gaps and empowering methodologies

Soutenir la prise de décision des petits exploitants pour une intensiﬁcation durable de l’agriculture: principales leçons pour les politiques agricoles au Burkina Faso

Ethiopian coffee marketing reforms and smallholder coffee producers: A socio-legal empowerment lens

A Systematic Review of Drivers and Constraints on Agricultural Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa

Using food diaries within a citizen agency framework

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An elderly woman bends over while planting rice

Q&A: Unleashing the potential of forest farmers to address climate change and biodiversity loss

Article, Jun 2021

Woman selling vegetables

Agricultural contracts and farmer agency: a shift in perspective

Blog, May 2021

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Cocoa producer agency and the living income differential: lessons from civil society organisations

Webinar, May 2021

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Sustainable fisheries in Myanmar

Annual review video, Mar 2021

A group of women in a forest smile as they hold out handfuls of coffee beans

Producer agency and voice in certification schemes

Blog, Mar 2021

Three people walking and carrying bags on their backs.

Producer agency in certification schemes: challenges and opportunities

Webinar, Dec 2020

Line of women walking through a field. One carries a basket on her head.

Promoting producer agency in agricultural value chain contracts: peer learning (in a pandemic)

Blog, Dec 2020

Man cutting a cacao fruit from the tree

Promoting producer agency in food systems – might new global guidelines offer any hope?

Blog, Dec 2020

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The inconvenient truth about ‘capacity’ strengthening in global development

Blog, Dec 2020

People planting vegetables and trees.

Rubbish dump turned lush urban farm

Blog, Dec 2020

View of a field and a farm.

Towards planet and people-positive agriculture in East Africa

Project, Nov 2020

Food market in Lusaka, Zambia.

Food systems of the poor: shaping the agenda for the Food Systems Summit

Webinar, Nov 2020