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Madizini in Tanzania grew from a village into an urban centre, initially because the local sugarcane plantations and factory needed workers. Now the town supports a wide array of businesses (Photo: Jytte Agergaard)
Reframing food security for an urbanising world
… Achieving food security and improved nutrition is central in current global … of urbanisation processes and rural-urban linkages, their impacts on food systems and what this means for achieving food security and adequate nutrition for the urban and rural poor. Food … Food and agriculture … Reframing food security for an urbanising world …
Insight, 10 April 2017
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Future trade-offs to 2050: land cover change, biodiversity and agriculture in Zambia
… Food and agriculture … Future trade-offs to 2050: land cover change, biodiversity and agriculture in Zambia …
Publication, 01 April 2022
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Creating enabling conditions for managing trade-offs between food production and forest conservation in Africa. Case studies from Ethiopia and Zambia
… How can agricultural production increase to meet the rapidly growing food demand in sub-Saharan Africa without reducing its precious forest … that have sought to better manage land-use trade-offs between food production and forest conservation: two cases in Zambia and two in … conditions for better managing the competing land-use objectives of food production and forest conservation. All of the four cases presented …
Publication, 01 August 2019
Aerial view of a city.
Teresina: inovação nas Hortas Comunitárias do Dirceu para garantir bem-estar social, alimentação saudável e resiliência climática
Article, 14 February 2024
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Compromis dans l’intensification durable de l’agriculture : études de cas dans deux villages du Burkina Faso
Publication, 01 August 2020
A woman market trader holds up a small plastic bag of fresh fish.
The politics at play in Vietnam’s food system
… So do those observations also apply to the political agenda around food systems? That “our food systems are failing us” and “something needs to be done” is now … and tobacco combined. But what shapes policymakers' decisions around food systems? What drives their agenda? Case study: Vietnam’s food … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 16 September 2020
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Using food diaries within a citizen agency framework
Publication, 26 February 2021
Zenital view of a woman, wearing a headscarf, holding a spoon and a bowl with greens in front of a pot with more greens.
Household energy: a missing ingredient in nutrition debates
… Over recent decades, concepts such as ‘food miles’ and ‘carbon footprints’ have entered the mainstream, … nutrition science. But research on the links between energy use and food, especially nutrition, tends to focus on agriculture and transportation. There is little evidence connecting food … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 21 February 2022
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The nexus between soil degradation and agricultural expansion in Zambia
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 09 May 2022
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The Chains of Agriculture: Sustainability and the Restructuring of Agri-food Markets
… Food and agriculture … The Chains of Agriculture: Sustainability and the Restructuring of Agri-food Markets …
Publication, 01 November 2001