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View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory

Project

Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development

A cook serves up the daily soup at the Achumani market in La Paz (Photo: Mauricio Panoso)

News

IIED and partners urge citizen involvement in international food policy debate

A typical milk bar in Kenya (Photo: Dave Elsworth/ILRI)

Project

MoreMilk – reviewing policy options for the informal dairy trade

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

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)

Project

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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Beyond maize: Exploring agricultural diversification in Zambia from different perspectives

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Informal food vendors and their role in the food and nutrition security of low-income workers in Bandung City, Indonesia

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Food production, agricultural expansion and deforestation in Mai-Ndombe, DRC

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Production alimentaire, expansion agricole et déforestation au Mai-Ndombe, RDC

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Building a global biocultural brand to support indigenous landscapes

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How forest and farm producer organisations deliver social and cultural services

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A typical milk bar in Kenya (Photo: Dave Elsworth/ILRI)

MoreMilk – reviewing policy options for the informal dairy trade

Project, Apr 2019

A Bolivian woman stallholder sells potatoes and other vegetables. Bolivian diets are changing, moving away from traditional foods and towards processed foods (Photo: Mauricio Panozo, Lucano Photography)

The Bolivian diet: women’s voices and choices

News, Mar 2019

A market stall. According to recent studies, 75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species (Photo: Hivos)

Cooking for our future

Blog, Feb 2019

The experiences of mountain communities in Kyrgyzstan were shared at a learning exchange (Photo: Alan Zulch)

Mountain communities stress the importance of biocultural heritage for global food security

News, Feb 2019

A cook serves up the daily soup at the Achumani market in La Paz (Photo: Mauricio Panoso)

IIED and partners urge citizen involvement in international food policy debate

News, Feb 2019

Uganda food lab participants add their names to a declaration that came out of the lab discussions (Photo: Nimrod Bagonza)

Food Change Labs tackle complex issues with the whole system in the room

Blog, Jan 2019

Bester Glandson was lent land and taught to grow soy and groundnuts with support from the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM) (Photo: Olivier Girard/EIF, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Building transparency and trust into smallholder commodity trading and contract farming

Blog, Nov 2018

A small farm near the Scottish town of Crief

Understanding the role of small farms in Europe (SALSA)

Project, Nov 2018

Women farmers sorting their carrot harvest in Karnal District in the Indian state of Haryana (Photo: Nirmal Sigtia, IWMI/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: Women in rural India are nature’s guardians

Interview, Oct 2018

A new radish variety shown off by Dayanand Joshi

As climate changes, Himalayan farmers return to traditional crops

Blog, Oct 2018

Immaculate Yossa is regional advocacy officer for Eastern Africa at Hivos. She discussed key messages from multi-stakeholder action at the Uganda Food Lab (Photo: Food and Agriculture Organisation, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Achieving real transformation in our food system

Blog, Oct 2018

Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)

Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity

Interview, Oct 2018