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We use research and action to design and sustain resilient local food systems, support biocultural innovation and secure fair consumption

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Vegetables street vendors sitting on the floor.

Transformative food systems governance and the environmental agenda: lessons from the national and city level

Event on 13 September 2023

Woman holds and looks at a smartphone

Bundling technology for gender equality

November 2022 - July 2023

Person bending over to pick up crops in a rice field

Sowing the seeds for a just transition

05 May 2023

Man moves charcoal with a shovel

How innovative shared labels are promoting diversity, biocultural heritage and sustainable production

Kata Wagner
20 March 2023

Man walks in a field, with mountains behind

Farmers in China spending $280 billion adapting to climate change and nature loss

07 December 2022

Woman, in a field, throws potatos into a sack

COP15 should protect mountain landscapes, and the Indigenous Peoples and local communities governing them

23 November 2022

A number of women wearing brightly coloured clothes tend crops with mountains in the background.

Do women have a meaningful role in global value chains, and why does this matter?

Emma Blackmore and Rachel Ajambo
13 October 2022

A group of people form a circle in the forest. One person is speaking

Diversification for climate resilience: a global priority

Duncan Macqueen
10 October 2022

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Learn more about focused areas of IIED's food and agriculture work

Resilience and diversity in food systems

A programme of work on how IIED is building greater local control, resilience and diversity into agricultural and food systems

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

A series of blogs shining a light on the critical issues for food policies around the 2021 Food Systems Summit

Publications

View more Food and agriculture publications

21621IIED.pdf

Sustainable food systems multi-stakeholder mechanisms

21616IIED.pdf

Food systems governance and the environmental agenda

21611g.pdf

Tackling environmental challenges through food systems governance

21556IIED.pdf

Establishing a biocultural heritage territory to protect Kenya’s Kaya Forests: mid-term project workshop

21496g.pdf

Integrating agrobiodiversity for livelihood options in Bhimphedi municipality, Nepal

21476g.pdf

Enhancing agrobiodiversity in smallholder agroforestry systems in Madagascar

21441g.pdf

How tree seedling nurseries are furnishing landscape agrobiodiversity in Zambia

21431IIED.pdf

Working with informality

21421g.pdf

Successful smallholder management of agrobiodiversity in Northern Tanzania

21391G.pdf

Advancing agrobiodiversity through agroecology, seed management and enterprise development in Ghana

In the distance across a large field of plants, a farmer tends to his crop.

Revisiting smallholder inclusion in modern value chains as a path to sustainable development

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Asociacion Andes team

Asociación ANDES: from local potato farmers to global strategies for protecting crop diversity and Indigenous rights

Article

A woman picks beans. She carries a basket with aubergines with her head.

Inclusive dialogue gets priorities of Nepal’s rural producers recognised in local law

Blog, 25 July 2022

People stand around several women on a busy street who are selling fish in buckets on the floor in front of them.

Preventing future pandemics means taking a considered approach to wildlife trade and 'wet markets'

Blog, 01 July 2022

A woman in a yellow sari and wearing a facemask is standing in a field of crops. She is putting the plants into a bag tied around her waist.

Resilience through flexibility – the story of peri-urban agricultural workers in India

Article, 06 June 2022

Three women holding a sack of rice between them.

Seeking cheaper, better quality rice: the cooperative rice distribution project in Jakarta

Blog, 25 May 2022

Prema Gopalan stands centre stage in an orange sari. Two men present her with a certificate; two others stand behind and applaud.

Prema Gopalan remembered

News, 23 May 2022

A man stands behind a desk raising an object in the air as he makes a demonstration to people seated in a semi-circle around him.

Which green energy technologies will boost jobs and income? Farmers in Kitui, Kenya decide

Blog, 06 April 2022

Aerial natural landscape.

From New Zealand to Africa: managing land use trade-offs

Blog, 04 March 2022

Zenital view of a woman, wearing a headscarf, holding a spoon and a bowl with greens in front of a pot with more greens.

Household energy: a missing ingredient in nutrition debates

Blog, 21 February 2022