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Informal food vendors in Mathare, Nairobi. Understanding food consumption and how food systems work is essential to support food security (Photo: Cecilia Tacoli/IIED)
Urbanisation, rural-urban transformations and food systems
… With much of the debate on global food security and rural development framed in terms of inadequate … paid to how the diversity of processes of urbanisation – reflected in food consumption and food systems that include processing, transport, … Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), UN Habitat, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the …
Project, 31 August 2016
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Reconciling forest conservation with food production in sub-Saharan Africa: case studies from Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania
… Of this loss, 75 per cent was caused by the conversion of forest to agriculture, largely for food production to serve rapidly growing domestic food demand. Focusing on Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania, this study … Food and agriculture … Reconciling forest conservation with food production in sub-Saharan Africa: case studies from Ethiopia, Ghana …
Publication, 01 April 2017
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Agrobiodiversity booms as botanic gardens serve farmers
… and flood management. The approach is central to Belize’s National Agriculture and Food Policy 2015–2030, National Agroforestry Strategy 2022 and National …
Publication, 29 April 2025
Women are sat at tables selling food a distance apart
Uganda’s hungry food vendors: counting the cost of COVID-19
… As I write this blog during the COVID-19 lockdown, over 450 food vendors in Fort-Portal municipality in the Kabarole District of western Uganda, are going hungry. These people serve food to others for a living. But now they are left depending on food donations from NGOs, government and family members.  Uganda’s …
Insight, 11 June 2020
Maize cultivation along the Kafue river in Kitwe, Zambia. Water levels in the river have decreased because of deforestation in the river’s catchment area (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Food, ecosystems, equality – can we have it all?
… and the planet.  Key questions will include: how can we achieve food security while retaining key ecosystem functions and services? And, … ways of working to address the challenge of producing enough food for Africa's growing and increasingly urbanised population, … of RUFORUM (the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture), a network of 85 universities from 35 African countries. He …
Insight, 19 December 2017
A six-minute film recorded in the Mathare settlement, Narobi, in late April 2015 shows some of the main challenges faced by food vendors living and working inside low-income informal settlements (Image: Paolo Cravero/IIED)
Informal food vendors: urban food security's invisible experts
… in Nairobi. It will be a long day. "I wake up at 5am to prepare the food," she says. "I have my first clients at 8am and I close at ten at … people – mostly women  –  earn a living like she does. These food vendors are vital to the food security and informal economies of their communities, where most …
Insight, 24 June 2015
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A Hidden Threat to Food Production: Air pollution and agriculture in the developing world
… Food and agriculture … A Hidden Threat to Food Production: Air pollution and agriculture in the developing world …
Publication, 01 January 1997
Plates of traditional Kabarole food
Creating knowledge and supporting action: citizen-generated evidence from food diaries in Uganda
… Curious? Would it make you want to change anything about the food you eat? This is exactly the challenge that our partner, the … that supports civil society organizations to advocate for better food production, trade and consumption. Citizen-centric Understanding food consumption patterns is often based on ’experts’ extracting data …
Insight, 14 September 2018
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The voices of women cooks in food markets in La Paz
… power, and changes in consumer preferences. Despite this, the food system in cities like La Paz is still based on traditional … wholesale and retail markets. Popular dining areas, where cooked food is sold inside these markets, occupy an important place within this system as they enable people to access nutritious, affordable food, as well as keeping the country’s culinary traditions alive. …
Publication, 01 April 2020
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Informal food vendors and their role in the food and nutrition security of low-income workers in Bandung City, Indonesia
… of a process of evidence generation to help protect and improve the food systems of the urban poor in the city of Bandung, in a period of … urbanisation and modernisation. It focuses on the role of street food vendors and informal food providers, who have a contested place in the city’s growth. The … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 August 2019