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A village in Burkina Faso. Land investment in Africa is growing driven by rises in global food prices, companies who see market opportunities in biofuels, and overseas countries anxious to secure their food supplies through direct investment. Photo: Tex
‘Land grabbing’ in Africa: Biofuels are not off the hook
… through the Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and Northern Regions. Land deals for agriculture may compound pressures from other sources, such as … in Africa since 2005. A study published in 2009 by IIED, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Fund for … The Great African Land Grab? Agricultural Investments and the Global Food System   Book charts path from harmful land grabs to people-centred …
Insight, 16 October 2013
Dancing at the Dia de Los Muertos festival, which incessant rainfall spoiled in Mexico this year (Photo: Richard Cawood)
Winning entry of 'My Story' competition says extreme weather affects Mexican festivals
… I like eating food in season because it reconnects me with nature's cycles and the … not only about the impact on our traditions, also the impact on the agriculture, water supplies and energy generation. All these little …
Insight, 06 December 2014
Social learning on climate change and food security issues can take place anywhere - in schools, farmers' organisations, groups or in workshops. Credit: F. Fiondella
Making it real: social learning in practice
… social learning with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), must “ go beyond the individual ” and become … of practice. For big global issues like climate change and food security, issues that play out so differently and at all …
Insight, 09 December 2013
High-tech trawlers in the Faroe Islands. Ninety-five per cent of this tiny nation's exports is made up of fish (Photo: antonalfred, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Turning the tide: creating incentives for sustainable oceans
… given the threat facing marine ecosystems: a r ecent study  by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) shows that nearly … biologically sustainable levels.  Fisheries are critical for global food security and poverty reduction – providing up to 820 million people …
Insight, 17 January 2017
Angola aims to achieve its mitigation goals through the promotion of renewable energy, stabilisation of agricultural emissions, carbon sequestration from the forestry sector and other activities (Photo: jbdodane, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate finance is vital to secure a future worth having
Insight, 09 December 2015
Fishermen offloading their morning catch from a fishing boat in Kalindi, West Bengal (Photo: Souvik Das Gupta, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Creating waves for small-scale fisheries
… Yet a critical question, and the focus of a recent meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations  I attended, is … hilsa fishery has examined schemes to compensate fishers with food transfers alongside other ways that can help prevent fishers …
Insight, 17 November 2016
Cover for 14537IIED.pdf
Banishing the biopirates: a new approach to protecting traditional knowledge
… knowledge (TK) has helped develop the millions of farmers’ food crop varieties in use today, as well as a wealth of traditional medicines and techniques for sustainable agriculture and resource use. Yet this knowledge is rapidly …
Publication, 01 December 2006
Cover for G00303.pdf
DRAFT September 2003 Changing Ownership and Management of State Forest Plantations: Chile
… of Water Affairs and Forestry of the South African Government, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the UK Department for International …
Publication, 01 September 2003
South Africans celebrate 'Vuvuzela Day': the World Forestry Congress in Durban will discuss critical forestry issues (Photo: Dundas Football Club, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Time to dust off the vuvuzelas
… population growth is expected to happen. Spiralling new demands for food will place massive additional pressure on the regions remaining … profit-maximising) while maintaining flows of local forest-derived food, energy, construction materials, clean water, medicines and so …
Insight, 04 September 2015
Cover for G01315.pdf
Notes on the RRA Workshop held at IDS, 19 May 1988
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 January 1988