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Hand holding wheat in a field.
A just transition in agriculture: putting workers at the centre
… flash flooding destroyed crops and livelihoods in Spain’s agricultural heartland in October 2024. A new hope? In order to both improve agricultural resilience to the changing climate and to strengthen carbon … a tripartite organisation focused on advancing human rights in supply chains, Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is not in a position to assess …
Insight, 05 June 2025
Cambodia's rural population is heavily reliant on small-scale rice production. The Clean Sugar Campaign campaigns against large-scale plantations that push smallholders off their land (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Holding actors in agricultural investment chains to account
… their rights when their land and livelihoods are affected by large agricultural investment projects? Our recent webinar explored how mapping out the … Clean Sugar Campaign in Cambodia.  Preddd's presentation, 'Promoting accountability in agricultural investment chains: lessons from practical … Holding actors in agricultural investment chains to account …
Insight, 22 October 2015
Phnom Penh: activists, students, monks and community members deliver a petition to Cambodia's National Assembly calling for increased protection for the country's natural resources (Photo: Luon Sovath, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED to host webinar on promoting accountability in agricultural investment chains
… citizens. On 11 September 2015, IIED hosted a webinar on 'Promoting accountability in agricultural investment chains: lessons from practical experience'. This online … IIED to host webinar on promoting accountability in agricultural investment chains …
Event, 11 September 2015
A woman stands behind a market stall of fresh vegetables, smiling proudly.
Investing in biodiverse agriculture in Ecuador’s highlands: UNORCAC and the Santa Anita cooperative
… by the Food and Agriculture Organization as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System. Chakra is a complex approach to … this complex system together. It includes an elaborate set of shared agricultural festivals throughout the year. These celebrate first … in mid-summer, ploughing and sowing in autumn and winter weeding.  Agricultural festivals complement other family and religious …
Article, 31 May 2024
Community member in Indonesia casting a net over water from a boat, to catch fish.
UN Food Systems Summit: reasons for hope but more work to do
Insight, 07 August 2025
Group of women and a young child walking in a field.
Recognising women’s land rights in Togo: a glimmer of hope
… They are involved in the production, processing and marketing of agricultural products. Despite this, they face significant challenges, … land is a crucial issue for women, who account for more than 51% of agricultural jobs. Land enables them not only to grow produce for … rights for all. As part of Togo’s National Programme for Agricultural Investment and Food and Nutritional Security (PDF) (content in French), …
Insight, 12 June 2025
Woman selling vegetables
Agricultural contracts and farmer agency: a shift in perspective
… – frequently agribusinesses – integrate farmers in their supply chains. This focus mirrors prevailing development approaches, which … With my colleagues Emma Blackmore and Thierry Berger , I reviewed 40 agricultural contracts to explore contract diversity and complexity and … with support from the Community Self-Reliance Centre and the Nepal Agricultural Co-operative Central Federation . And in Malawi’s Thyolo …
Insight, 16 May 2021
Boat on a lake and a waterfall in the background
Making natural capital accounting an institution in Uganda
… with policy analysts and communications specialists to create ‘value chains’ of information – a topic the ' Connect' project in Uganda is …
Insight, 11 December 2020
Woman looking to the front holding a water hose, a solar panel in the background
Where’s the capital for homegrown companies? Why energy access investments in Kenya need to go local
… So far this year, 75% of global investment commitments in off-grid solar technology have gone to just … market and enabling thousands of jobs to be created along their value chains. But questions remain about where the overall value and profit … retained. Unless these big companies share more information, such as investment flows and job numbers, it is difficult to establish the exact …
Insight, 29 December 2020
Old woman walks in the forest holding a stick.
How the Amazon bioeconomy can catalyse an inclusive green economy
… The region is key to maintaining the rainfall regime that feeds agricultural production, hydroelectric power generation and urban water … be defined as the set of economic activities related to productive chains based on the management and cultivation of native biodiversity. … bioeconomy should seek to foster sustainable production and value chains based on management and cultivation of the Amazonian biodiversity …
Insight, 27 June 2022