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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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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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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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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

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