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Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Chapter 2
… Chapter 2. Actors The Andean Program for Food Sovereignty began in 2007, when Michel Pimbert from IIED invited … dealing with the idea of democratising the governance of agriculture and food systems, the partners agreed that the peasant altiplano communities … Food and agriculture … Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Chapter 2 …
Publication, 01 June 2013
A Bolivian woman stallholder sells potatoes and other vegetables. Bolivian diets are changing, moving away from traditional foods and towards processed foods (Photo: Mauricio Panozo, Lucano Photography)
The Bolivian diet: women’s voices and choices
… A photo exhibition profiling 10 women from La Paz illustrates a food system that has the potential to embrace the country's traditional … – but instead is increasingly dominated by highly processed fast food. The exhibition was held alongside the Second Global Conference of … houses, schools and municipal spaces of La Paz. Urban and peri-urban agriculture is one strategy to guarantee that people in urban areas have …
News, 08 March 2019
Renewable energy has a place to play in providing energy access to small farms (Photo via Google reuse rights))
Calling all energy and agriculture experts: meet, talk and collaborate
… Recent reports on the links between food, energy and water have different, sometimes conflicting, messages. … —those two billion people who produce up to 80 per cent of all food consumed in a large part of the developing world – have been … from USAID and the Ashden Awards promoting clean energy solutions in agriculture are a welcome sign that others in the development sector …
Insight, 29 April 2014
A soup stall in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Many of the urban poor rely on frequent food purchases, often cooked food prepared by street vendors (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How the urban poor define and measure food insecurity
… with income poverty, time poverty and space poverty –shape food and nutrition (in)security. Local governments in low-income urban … with rapidly growing populations typically lack accurate data on food security and nutrition. What is IIED doing? IIED is working with … towns in Cambodia and Nepal about the challenges they face in putting food on the table, their strategies to overcome them, and what …
Project, 14 March 2018
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Why food remittances matter: rural-urban linkages and food security in Africa
… that cash remittances can be mainstreamed into development. Equally, food remitting also has a role to play in urban and rural food security. Yet despite its importance, researchers and policymakers tend to ignore food remitting. This briefing is aimed at researchers and policymakers … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 January 2017
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Teresina: promoting social wellbeing, healthy diets and climate resilience in the Dirceu Community Garden
… contributed to the ‘heat island effect’ in the region.  Teresina’s food insecurity (PDF) is a growing problem, particularly among the … Food and agriculture …
Article, 14 February 2024
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Supporting smallholders’ decision making: managing trade-offs and synergies for sustainable agricultural intensification
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 July 2020
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Rural producer agency and agricultural value chains: What role for socio-legal empowerment?
Publication, 01 January 2019
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Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Chapter 4
… Chapter 4. Constructing food sovereignty An apacheta is a stone cairn built over time by each … stone by stone, idea by idea, also occurred with the concept of food sovereignty when it was discussed in a multicommunal event called … 2. Water and Climate Change, 3. Human and Landscape Health, and 4. Agriculture and Animal Production. A team of 20 community facilitators …
Publication, 01 June 2013
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Stepping stones towards sustainable agriculture in China
… In only a few decades, agriculture in China has evolved from a diverse “agriculture without waste” to one involving specialised, high-external … some of the challenges and opportunities that could shape sustainable agriculture in China in the future. … Food and agriculture … Stepping stones towards sustainable agriculture in China …
Publication, 01 March 2016