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Policies for Agricultural Sustainability in Northern Thailand
… in 1997 and its chaotic consequences for the industrial sector, agriculture is now regarded as the main strength for economic recovery. Food security and economic self-reliance, particularly for the excluded, … temperate fruit crops for the market economy, but struggle to achieve food security and are often deprived of access to land and forest …
Publication, 01 January 2001
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Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Chapter 3
… participation This chapter features a conceptual framework addresses food sovereignty as a form for amplifying food producers’ voices via PAR and community video-making. It has four … Food and agriculture … Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Chapter 3 …
Publication, 01 June 2013
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Smallholder farming systems in the Indian Himalayas: Key trends and innovations for resilience
Publication, 01 June 2018
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Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Chapter 8
… farmers involved of their right to produce and eat local, healthy food. This right encompasses wishes and dreams expressed via drawings, … and highlighted the following as meaningful milestones in the Food Sovereignty process. To download the full publication or other … Food and agriculture … Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Chapter 8 …
Publication, 01 June 2013
Woman stirs a long stick in a pan on a fireplace made of stone
Why eat wild meat? Insights from Africa and lessons for COVID-19 responses
… across the globe depend on wild meat as an important contribution to food security. In many rural areas, wild meat is the key source of … Food and agriculture …
Event, 04 August 2020
Bester Glandson was lent land and taught to grow soy and groundnuts with support from the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM) (Photo: Olivier Girard/EIF, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building transparency and trust into smallholder commodity trading and contract farming
… seminar supported through IIED’s ' Empowering Producers in Commercial agriculture (EPIC) ' initiative. Our featured speakers were Cuan … to accessing commodity exchanges and set up a partnership with the Agriculture Commodities Exchange for Africa (ACE) to pilot IBCF in the … and farmers who fail to repay loans. Farmers needing cash to buy food can also be an issue and the timing of payment (usually at harvest …
Insight, 13 November 2018
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Sustainable intensification revisited
… a sustainable manner; and what it is not — a paradigm for achieving food security overall. The paper summarises the history of and … of sustainable intensification as one key element of a sustainable food system situated within a green economy. … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 March 2015
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Sustainable intensification revisited
… a sustainable manner; and what it is not — a paradigm for achieving food security overall. The paper summarises the history of and … of sustainable intensification as one key element of a sustainable food system situated within a green economy. … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 March 2015
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Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Chapter 6
… are the life stories of some of the community-based persons in the food sovereignty process who have been thinking with the power of nature … and defending their individual and collective rights to eat healthy food. Their language is peaceful, yet allusive – even sometimes … Food and agriculture … Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Chapter 6 …
Publication, 01 June 2013
A man carries a box with spring onions through a busy scene
Redefining smallholder farmer inclusion in modern value chains: three ways forward
… Food and agriculture …
Insight, 15 September 2022