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Food market in Lusaka, Zambia.

Food systems of the poor: shaping the agenda for the Food Systems Summit

In the lead up to the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021, this online IIED event on 25 November explored how food systems transformation can be relevant for people living in poverty.

Event date: 
Sunday, 25 October 2020Event

Promoting women’s influence in their food systems. Women's influence within food systems outcomes in the Sustainable Diets for All programme

Despite playing multiple key roles in food systems — as producers, processors, sellers, consumers and preparers of food — women’s voices are often not heard.

December 2020PublicationGender, Sustainable markets

Promoting women’s influence in their food systems. Women's influence within food systems outcomes in the Sustainable Diets for All programme

Despite playing multiple key roles in food systems — as producers, processors, sellers, consumers and preparers of food — women’s voices are often not heard.

December 2020PublicationGender, Sustainable markets
People planting seedlings in water

Towards better assessment of adaptation results

How can countries align their climate adaptation assessment mechanisms with other frameworks? Barry Smith highlights opportunities for achieving effective adaptation monitoring and evaluation
31 October 2019 BlogClimate change, Monitoring, evaluation and learning
A man lines up six bright water bottles under a series of outside taps

Definitions matter – part two

How is it possible to monitor progress, or otherwise, towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for water and sanitation without clear definitions?
8 December 2021 BlogPoverty, Urban
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho

Building resilient food systems

IIED strengthens the capacity of local organisations and institutions by designing resilient food systems and sustaining local food systems.

14 August 2013ProjectBiodiversity, Food and agriculture
Madizini in Tanzania grew from a village into an urban centre, initially because the local sugarcane plantations and factory needed workers. Now the town supports a wide array of businesses (Photo: Jytte Agergaard)

Reframing food security for an urbanising world

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of zero hunger by 2030 means taking account of changes in both rural and urban contexts. Cecilia Tacoli reports back from a workshop organised with IFAD on some of the issues raised

10 April 2017 BlogFood and agriculture, Urban
A man casting a net

Achieving transformational change for the ocean

Making progress on Sustainable Development Goal 14 – life below water – is a complex and increasingly urgent challenge. A new handbook offers practical guidance on monitoring, evaluation and learning for SDG14, and emphasises the importance of using systems thinking
11 June 2019 BlogBiodiversity, Fisheries, Water
A Zambian farmer in his maize field. The overdependence on maize is having a negative impact on diets in Zambia (Photo: Wesley Wakunuma)

Promoting diversity on the farm – and the plate

As a recent meeting in Lusaka showed, Food Change Labs offer an innovative path towards greater diversity on the farm and on the plate in Zambia

5 June 2017 BlogFood and agriculture
A woman serving food at a street stall

Common cause with people in the food systems of the majority

Bill Vorley discusses why we need a much deeper understanding of and partnership with people in the food systems that feed and provide livelihoods for low-income women and men
22 June 2020 BlogFood and agriculture

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