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Afghan farmers and extension workers assess an okra field in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan (Photo: Barbara Adoph/IIED)
Introduction to building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems
… to support smallholder farmers in particular. We conduct analysis of agri-food systems, including the policy and institutional environment …
Article, 05 August 2013
Women work in a knitwear factory
The future of work, technological change and global inequality
… the progress of inequality in poor countries. If automation enables agri-business to develop more profitable capital-intensive business …
Insight, 02 November 2018
A market stall. According to recent studies, 75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species (Photo: Hivos)
Cooking for our future
Insight, 20 February 2019
Peasant Seeds: the foundation of food sovereignty in Africa
… and Livelihoods Programme, argues that “Locally controlled agri-food systems and agricultural research allow farmers to manage …
News, 12 February 2009
Cover for 6152IIED.pdf
Mad Cows and Bad Berries
… one-perspective changes are made within our increasingly complex agri-food systems. ~Disease problems in urban consumers are often …
Publication, 01 January 1999
A huge selection of photos are displayed in a Peru supermarket (Photo: Teresa Stanton, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Nourishing diversity in our food systems
… markets to thrive, using procurement, and investing in innovative agri-food SMEs that promote diversity Promote and maintain local crop …
Insight, 10 October 2017
Hundreds of power-tillers from China lie unused in Ethiopia. They can be used to plow, power a water-pump, and generate electricity, but low sales were thought to be caused by a lack of technical information, showing how China's role in African agriculture must be researched (Photo: IFPRI-IMAGES, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Chinese engagement in African agriculture is not what it seems
… is the growing number of informal migrants getting involved in the agri-food sector, from farming to processing to retail to restaurants. …
Insight, 06 April 2016
Cover for G01076.pdf
Part II. TOWARDS A CONTEXTUAL FRAMEWORK SHARING POWER Chapter1. MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES: A STRUGGLE BETWEEN POLITICS AND CULTURE
… just celebrated their most recent victory against a motion to lower agri- cultural subsidies in the country. With subsidies at ... …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
… and technologies that enable locally driven design of resilient agri-food systems. Such systems are generally based on circular economy …
Project, 14 August 2013
Sales to processor at wholesale market. Photo: Jikun Huang
Regoverning Markets
… undertaken to: Understand the keys to inclusion in these restructured agri-food markets, in order to address implications and opportunities …
Project, 09 August 2013