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At the latest provocation from IIED and Hivos, held in Brussels last week (22 June), a group of around 60 policymakers, academics and development practitioners gathered to discuss, among other things, the role of CSR in achieving development goals such as poverty reduction and the empowerment of small-scale farmers.

From slow-onset sea-level rise to more frequent and severe floods and droughts, our changing climate is affecting agricultural productivity and outputs, and threatening livelihoods. A recent IIED project has been looking at how to adapt Malawi's agriculture to climate change. Lead country researcher, George Matiya, senior lecturer at Bunda College of Agriculture in Lilongwe, Milawi, tells us more about the project and its wider implications.

IIED works on a number of tourism projects that look at the forces and processes which impact and influence tourism development, to evaluate how more positive benefits can be gained to put poor people and the environment at the forefront of future tourism development.

Across the developing world, food systems and supply chains are changing — exports are rising, particularly in fresh foods, supermarkets are playing an increasingly important role and there is a growing number of standards for safety, ethics and environment.

Le troisième d'une série de six séminaires sur les marchés et les petits agriculteurs ont eu lieu à Paris, France le 30 Mars 2011.

El quinto de una serie de seminarios sobre mercados y agricultores de pequeña escala tendrá lugar en Bruselas, Bélgica, el 22 de junio de 2011.