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Food year: exploring the policies and practices to transform our food systems
A series of blogs, curated by experts in IIED's Natural Resources research group, shining a light on the critical issues for food policies around the 2021 Food Systems Summit
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Street vendor selling vegetables
IIED’s 'food year' blog series explores policies and practice to transform our food systems
… The first ever  UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)  will take place in September 2021, during … shocks and stress.  Drawing on this, IIED’s new ‘food year’ blog series aims to illuminate discussions about the policy and … happen at the upcoming summit to get the world on track to genuinely transform our food system.  …
News, 22 June 2021
Crop field with man watering the soil.
Reconciling food production and forest conservation: priorities for the UN Food Systems Summit
… The 2021 UN Food Systems Summit  taking place later this week aims to provide heads … and protecting our environment. This is the latest blog in the 'food year' series that explores policies and practice to transform our food systems. Read the first blog … Food and agriculture … Food year: exploring the policies and practices to transform our food …
Insight, 20 September 2021
Two people pour liquid on a plate of potatoes.
Indigenous food systems prove highly resilient during COVID-19
… foodstuffs. The pandemic laid bare the vulnerabilities of global food supply chains that rely on long distance transportation, and of … knowledge and cultural values. This is the latest blog in the 'food year' series that explores policies and practice to transform our food systems. Read the first blog …
Insight, 26 August 2021
Stalls of fruits and vegetables.
Food Systems Summit: implications for global food governance
… As United Nations events go, the Food Systems Summit had a strangely synthetic feel. The virtual … foods, corporate concentration distorting value chains and public policies, contract chains imposing agroindustry terms on rural … the summit wrapped up, questions remain about how to authentically transform food systems. Those committed to addressing this challenge …
Insight, 30 September 2021
People standing between piles of bananas
African social movements call on UN food summit to give people back control
… Since the end of 2019, the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) has been one of the most talked-about … right time to talk about food. This is the latest blog in the 'food year' series that explores policies and practice to transform our food systems. Read the first blog … Food and agriculture … Food year: exploring the policies and practices to transform our food …
Insight, 21 July 2021
Woman puts greens on a plate
UN Food Systems Summit: it’s time to listen to civil society’s concerns
… 2 (to end hunger) by 2030, and many fear the upcoming United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)  will not deliver on its promise to get the … This is the first blog in a new series that will explores policies and practice to transform our food systems   With climate chaos … that stubbornly resist regulation of their labour and environmental practices – to ‘help’ devise solutions. By trumpeting the ‘inclusivity’ …
Insight, 22 June 2021
Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
… On this page 1. Building resilient agriculture and food systems 2. Early warning, early action to leave no one behind 3. … systems and improve equitable global climate resilience. During this year’s D&C Days, policymakers, practitioners, scholars, youth, … of transformation, and engaging and co-creating agri-food systems policies and practices with local producers, processors, traders, …
Article, 12 November 2021
a vegetable seller and customers
The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the diets of Hanoi’s urban poor
… until mid-April. People are required to stay at home unless buying food and medicine. Businesses are closed, public transport is suspended … that attract tens of millions of tourists from around the world every year – street markets, stalls selling traditional food and drinks, … on the paper “Food safety and nutrition for low-income urbanites: exploring a social justice dilemma in consumption policy”, by Sigrid …
Insight, 08 April 2020
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
… read blogs of 2021 Read a blog about our top 10 videos of 2021 The year began with the launch of our new Publications Library , which … tangible development outcomes for local people, including jobs, food security and empowerment as well as resilience to climate change.   … situations, and Identify gaps in existing climate and development policies that leave communities facing climate crises exposed to …
Article, 17 December 2021