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A young person

Blog

The champions helping communities make better food choices

Busy market scene, showing traders with their vegetables

News

Informal food markets offer diverse food products and crucial livelihood opportunities

View of a road cutting through a forest

Blog

Wild meat: is there an appetite for alternatives?

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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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

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 agricultural intensification: the farmers’ perspective

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The Maize Park Biocultural Heritage Territory in Lares, Peru. Case study guidance on Biocultural Heritage Territories

G04446

Informal food markets in urban food system: policy and practice in Lusaka and Kitwe

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Indonesia’s triple burden of malnutrition: a call for urgent policy change

17738IIED

Conservation versus food production in Africa: better managing trade-offs

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Agriculture, nature conservation or both? Managing trade-offs and synergies in sub-Saharan Africa

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Evelyne Flora Latabu shaking a bowl of grains.

The Ugandan diet: food voices and choices

Blog, Oct 2019

Women traders on a market stall, with rows of different fruit and vegetables in front of them

Harnessing the potential of Zambia’s informal food sector

Blog, Oct 2019

A woman sitting on a raised platform

Urban food insecurity and malnutrition are about more than just food

Blog, Oct 2019

An Indonesia market trader stands at his stall while women customers look at the food on sale

Dietary indicators need overhauling, food diary study finds

Blog, Oct 2019

Women sell bananas at stalls at a market

Healthy Diets Week Twitter chat

News, Oct 2019

Rows of small dishes containing various types of vegetable seeds, including beans and grains

Madagascar needs agroforestry businesses in its response to climate change

Blog, Sep 2019

Green beans stacked into in a cardboard box

Rebalancing power in the Kenya-UK green bean value chain

Blog, Sep 2019

A woman picks fresh greens

Beyond maize: exploring agricultural diversification in Zambia

Blog, Aug 2019

Roadside stalls

For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings

Blog, Aug 2019

A food vendor is surrounded by people in a busy street

The two faces of Bandung’s street food: recreation and reliance

Blog, Aug 2019

People gather around a table at an outdoor meeting

Tackling widespread hunger in cities means listening to the urban poor

Blog, Aug 2019

An African man makes a speech in front of a banner in Chinese

Our previous work on China

Article, Aug 2019