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Beyond maize: exploring agricultural diversification in Zambia
… Zambia’s food system is not delivering enough affordable nutritious food for most of its population. In particular, the nation’s dependence … cereal and because it restricts the economic multiplier effects of agriculture, limiting potential agro-processing, trading and input … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 22 August 2019
The Great African Land Grab? Agricultural Investments and the Global Food System
… of thousands of hectares. Private-sector expectations of higher world food and commodity prices and government concerns about longer-term national food and energy security have both made land a more attractive asset. … of land deals in Africa both for its people and for world agriculture and food security. …
Publication, 01 July 2013
A young woman in a greenhouse (Photo: Tamara Kaunda)
Attracting Zambia's youth to agriculture: it's about time
… full-time farmer. The partnership with Dr Kaunda is through the youth food change lab group called the ' Youths for Sustainable Foods … labs are ideally suited to addressing complex issues related to agriculture that encompass a myriad of actors, facets and policies.  … of Muchinga. The business was successful; it provided her family with food and jobs, and paid for Kaunda's education. Inspired by her own …
Insight, 29 January 2018
Cover of the report, Boosting Community Forestry and Agroforestry Businesses: field lessons learned for improving and upscaling returns from FFPOs initiatives in Africa
Boosting community forestry and agroforestry businesses: field lessons learned for improving and upscaling returns from FFPO initiatives in Africa
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 25 November 2024
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Making crop insurance work for small-scale farmers: a review of recent evidence
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 03 April 2025
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How tree seedling nurseries are furnishing landscape agrobiodiversity in Zambia
… FAO (through its FFF programme) also networks these farmers into its food and energy security programme, where farmers are trained to raise … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 05 May 2023
Immaculate Yossa is regional advocacy officer for Eastern Africa at Hivos. She discussed key messages from multi-stakeholder action at the Uganda Food Lab (Photo: Food and Agriculture Organisation, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Achieving real transformation in our food system
… hunger is on the rise again: 821 million people don’t have enough food, and more than one third of the seven billion people on our planet … access to a healthy diet and many eat too much of the wrong types of food.  Our planet is in bad shape too. Biodiversity loss is increasing. … supply 95% of the calories we consume. This undermines the ability of agriculture to adapt to climate change. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions …
Insight, 23 October 2018
Woman selling vegetables
Agricultural contracts and farmer agency: a shift in perspective
… Contracts are the sinews of economic organisation. In agriculture, they coordinate production and trade, linking input … The research forms part of Empowering Producers in Commercial Agriculture (EPIC) , a broader action-research project to support … think they should be. Download the report ' Contracts in commercial agriculture: enhancing rural producer agency ' IIED’s 'Empowering …
Insight, 16 May 2021
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L’argent de l’intérieur : tirer parti du financement des organisations de producteurs
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 03 April 2024
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Urban food insecurity and malnutrition are about more than just food
… the reasons behind a lack of access to healthy diets. The problems of food insecurity and malnutrition are driven by both the income and non-income dimensions of urban poverty. The urbanisation of food insecurity and malnutrition  After decades of decline, global … between traders and consumers , especially small-scale vendors. Urban agriculture projects not only contribute to healthier diets but equally …
Insight, 16 October 2019