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Maize cultivation along the Kafue river in Kitwe, Zambia. Water levels in the river have decreased because of deforestation in the river’s catchment area (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)

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Food, ecosystems, equality – can we have it all?

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

Air balloon photograph of children while mapping Mathare informal settlement, Nairobi.

Long read

Mapping for food safety

Title screen of the Life beyond maize film

News

IIED and Hivos film calls for life beyond maize in Zambia

More than 100 representatives of indigenous mountain communities met in Peru's Potato Park in April 2017 to share their expertise and build their international network (Photo: Lucia Flórez Zelaya)

News

Mountain indigenous peoples call for support for biocultural landscapes to achieve the SDGs

Resilience in agricultural and food systems

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Afghan farmers and extension workers assess an okra field in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan (Photo: Barbara Adoph/IIED)

Article

Introduction to building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems

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)

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Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture

A farmer in Bangladesh who produces vermi-compost to fertilise her crops (Photo: Seth Cook/IIED)

Project

Upscaling agroecological practices

Publications

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How forest and farm producer organisations deliver social and cultural services

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Sustainable Diets for All: Harnessing citizens’ voices for a diverse, healthy, fair and green food system

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Taking Stock: Indonesia Food Change Lab: Raising the profile of street food vendors as providers of healthy food for low-income consumers

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Taking Stock: Uganda Food Change Lab: Planning for a sustainable food system in the face of rapid urbanisation

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Taking Stock: Zambia Food Change Lab: Mobilising diverse actors to advocate for food diversity

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Actors of change: can socio-legal empowerment support rural producer agency?

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Exercises helped the Food Change Lab group trust one another

Food, sisterhood and dreams

Blog, Oct 2018

A man from Malawi holds cotton in his hands

IIED webinar: Incentive-based contract farming and agricultural commodities exchanges

News, Sep 2018

Plates of traditional Kabarole food

Creating knowledge and supporting action: citizen-generated evidence from food diaries in Uganda

Blog, Sep 2018

Workshop participants undertake a participatory resource mapping exercise for community enterprises (Photo: Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources - ANSAB)

Forest and Farm Facility launches Phase II

News, Jul 2018

Smallholder farmer with pumpkins she harvested in her maize field in Chongwe, Zambia (Photo: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

We need to safeguard biodiversity and promote diverse diets

Blog, May 2018

The Sustainable diets for all programme recognises that people – with their capacity to innovate and power to drive change – must be at the centre of efforts to reshape our failing food systems (Photo: © Mauricio Panozo of Lucano photography. Bolivia, La Paz)

How people are providing evidence, and influencing to get food policies that work for them

Blog, Apr 2018

Workers in a tea plantation. (Photo: Anil Wadghule, Creative Commons via Flickr)

IIED webinar: How to support small-scale farmers in negotiations with agribusiness

News, Mar 2018

A soup stall in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Many of the urban poor rely on frequent food purchases, often cooked food prepared by street vendors (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)

How the urban poor define and measure food insecurity

Project, Mar 2018

A young woman in a greenhouse (Photo: Tamara Kaunda)

Attracting Zambia's youth to agriculture: it's about time

Blog, Jan 2018

Maize cultivation along the Kafue river in Kitwe, Zambia. Water levels in the river have decreased because of deforestation in the river’s catchment area (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)

Food, ecosystems, equality – can we have it all?

Blog, Dec 2017

IIED at the Seventh Session of the Governing Body of FAO Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources

Event, Oct 2017

A huge selection of photos are displayed in a Peru supermarket (Photo: Teresa Stanton, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Nourishing diversity in our food systems

Blog, Oct 2017