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Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
… unsustainable and exclusive practices benefiting mostly large-scale agri-food actors. This is no longer tenable, nor is it just, … at the heart of transformation, and engaging and co-creating agri-food systems policies and practices with local producers, … of locally-led climate adaptation also necessitates tailoring projects to include contextualised conflict/risk analysis, and working …
Article, 12 November 2021
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Policy and Institutional Mapping for Small Scale Producers' Participation in Dynamic Markets in Turkey
… Rapid changes are taking place in agri-food markets in middle and low-income countries. The spread of …
Publication, 01 May 2006
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Linking Small producers to Modern Markets: Policy and Institutional Mapping Workshop
… caused changes in the way food are produced, handled and sold. The agri-food systems have changed rapidly paving an increasing role for …
Publication, 01 May 2007
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 … for fairer policies and their implementation. Read about some of the projects we have worked on below. Designing resilient food systems with, … and the management of agricultural biodiversity in Europe . These projects were led by Dr Michel Pimbert, who is now director of the …
Project, 14 August 2013
Aerial view of an arid landscape. A group of people walk.
IIED at 50: be prepared to engage with young activists
… seen the implications of COVID-19 in terms of disturbances within agri-food value chains, the tourism sector and prices of primary goods … organisation means for us. Is it just around the narrative and the projects you do? Or does it also mean that you translate your …
Article, 29 November 2021
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
… to find out. The data on land acquisition, investment flows and aid projects is limited and confusing. It often doesn't add up. Ghost projects are listed that never happened, and others are missed out. Our … 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
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
… we eat. According to the IPES report ‘Too big to feed’ : “Dominant agri-food firms have become too big to feed humanity sustainably, too …
Insight, 20 February 2019
Woman collects water for irrigation in Selingue, Mali. Photo: Khanh Tran-Thanh
Ensuring water is equitably allocated and governed
… supply infrastructure, and ensuring that large dam and irrigation projects benefit the most poor and marginalised people. Maintaining … communities and smallholders affected by large water infrastructure projects, with a particular focus on West Africa and on large-scale, … governments in West Africa proposed to allocate irrigated land to agri-business investors investors, as smallholders are considered unable …
Project, 05 August 2013
Sourcing gender
… profits. 4. Develop future women managers and leaders. Provide agri-business training and graduation opportunities. Remove the glass … ‘on the ground’ to reduce costs of project implementation, adapt projects to local needs and improve project success rate. Click here to …
Insight, 17 November 2010
Local logging bosses ('patrons') attend a training session on business organisation and forest management in the remote miombo forest near Caia in Central Mozambique (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Mozambique's forest theatre – how will the play end?
… donors (in this case Sweden, Finland, Germany, USA and the European agri-agencies Agricord). It works to strengthen producer organisations …
Insight, 04 March 2015