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Two women standing in front of a seed bank, talking and laughing. They are wearing vibrant shades of pink and red.
Women producers’ dialogue series: mentorship and peer-to-peer learning
… Community Management of Forests (REFACOF), Cameroon Lucia Gerbaldo, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Dunia Baroud El Khoury, Women’s …
Event, 30 March 2023
A women puts food into an outdoor oven
Keeping Bolivia’s culture alive through food
… We need food for much more than nurturing our bodies. Food is crucial for building and strengthening cultures. It brings … year, MIGA, alongside the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), held the event ‘Sowing encounters of flavours and … Food and agriculture … Keeping Bolivia’s culture alive through food …
Insight, 18 June 2019
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Informal food markets in Zambia: perspectives from vendors, consumers and policymakers in Lusaka and Kitwe
… play a critical role in providing affordable, accessible and diverse food for the urban poor, while at the same time supporting the … status, perceptions, challenges and policy context of the informal food markets in Lusaka and Kitwe, with the aim of identifying key points … are that although policy is biased towards formalisation, informal food markets offer opportunities for livelihoods and income generation, …
Publication, 01 October 2019
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Cash Crops, Food Crops and Agricultural Sustainability
… agricultural development is less environmentally sustainable than food production for domestic consumption. However recent evidence … development is the failure of any economic policy, whether promoting food crops or exports, to address adequately problems of natural resource management. Policies to achieve food self-sufficiency may therefore be neither inherently more nor …
Publication, 01 January 1987
Women farmers bending over planting crops in a paddy field
Curbing the impacts of COVID-19 on Nepal’s small-scale farmers and seizing opportunities for food system reform
… landless farmers under strain. These groups depend on the country’s agriculture sector to make a living; and the nation depends on these groups for its food supply.  The lockdown measures may help Nepal win against the … and the whole country could find itself slipping into deep food insecurity. So far, the relief packages announced by the federal …
Insight, 11 May 2020
A huge selection of photos are displayed in a Peru supermarket (Photo: Teresa Stanton, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Nourishing diversity in our food systems
… be overwhelmed by the profusion of choices. The productivity of our food systems is also impressive: between 1961 and 2001, crop yields more … and malnutrition persist in many countries in spite of increased food production. A few ingredients such as refined flour, sugar, soy, … for livelihoods, and for nutrition. It also undermines the ability of agriculture to adapt to climate change. What can be done? Citizens …
Insight, 10 October 2017
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SENTINEL: Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture
… Increasing agricultural production to meet rapidly growing demand for food – a 150 per cent increase by 2050 – while safeguarding vital … decisions about land use and agricultural practices so that food security can be improved without losing precious biodiversity and … Food and agriculture … SENTINEL: Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture …
Publication, 01 October 2017
A cook serves food to a group of children
Q&A: Encouraging the availability of healthy and diverse foods for students
Article, 29 October 2019
Women racing while carrying baskets full of sweet potatoes on their backs.
Faith in ecology: how one group of Indigenous people in the Philippines are advancing agrobiodiversity
… fruit trees. Most traditional farms use a form of rotating organic agriculture to maintain fertility and manage pests and diseases. … use declines. As a result, several farmers are turning to ‘commercial agriculture’: the monoculture plantation of market garden crops – … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 05 December 2024
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 … the different components of agro-ecosystems. We aim to support local food systems by enhancing local access and control over productive … sovereignty   This project looked at the ecological basis of food and agriculture, the social and environmental costs of modern food systems, …
Project, 14 August 2013