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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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Trade-offs in sustainable intensification: Malawi country report

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Socio-legal empowerment and agency of small-scale farmers in informal markets

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Trade-offs in sustainable intensification: Ghana country report

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Strengthening capacity for advocacy in food systems of the poor

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Perangkat Advokasi

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Harramientas de Incidencia

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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

Women buying bushmeat at a food stall.

How is COVID-19 affecting wild meat consumption in rural Cameroon?

Blog, Nov 2020

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

Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity

Blog, Oct 2020

Jack fruit vendor spreads out their wares on the ground.

Putting informal food systems at the centre of sustainable diets

Blog, Oct 2020

Woman washing dishes with a jerrycan.

To address food insecurity in Uganda post COVID-19 the government must act now

Blog, Sep 2020

A woman market trader holds up a small plastic bag of fresh fish.

The politics at play in Vietnam’s food system

Blog, Sep 2020