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Blog

Food Systems Summit: implications for global food governance

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Annual review video

Sustainable fisheries in Myanmar

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Feature

Food year: exploring the policies and practices to transform our food systems

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Blog

Indigenous food systems prove highly resilient during COVID-19

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Blog

Putting informal food systems at the centre of sustainable diets

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Podcast

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

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

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Project

International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)

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Project

Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development

Latest publications

Sumaq Kausay and Ayllu: Quechua values and worldviews for conservation and sustainable development in the Chalakuy Maize Park, Lares, Peru

Safeguarding Lepcha and Limbu cultural values and worldviews for conservation and sustainable development in the Eastern Himalayas, India

Towards a Biocultural Heritage Territory in Rabai Cultural Landscape: exploring Mijikenda cultural values and practices for sustainable development

Indigenous Naxi-Moso cultural values and worldviews for sustainable development: Four Village Biocultural Heritage Coalition, Yunnan, China

Indigenous knowledge and values: key for nature conservation

Agricultural expansion in Zambia: what are the drivers and implications?

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UN Food Systems Summit: it’s time to listen to civil society’s concerns

Blog, Jun 2021

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IIED’s 'food year' blog series explores policies and practice to transform our food systems

News, Jun 2021

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Turning up the heat – how chilli growing is conserving Uganda’s wildlife

Blog, Jun 2021

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

Interview, Jun 2021

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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

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Producer agency and voice in certification schemes

Blog, Mar 2021

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Producer agency in certification schemes: challenges and opportunities

Webinar, Dec 2020

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

Blog, Dec 2020

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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