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Land and labour: Agricultural workers’ tenure rights
… estate managers sublet plots for workers to complement wages with food production for their family or local markets. Casual or seasonal … of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), and of international labour conventions, in …
Publication, 29 September 2021
Tea plantation with many people carrying baskets on their backs.
Legal empowerment with a gender lens: how women tea farmers in Malawi are claiming their rights
… left behind. As part of the  Empowering Rural Producers in Commercial Agriculture project , women’s rights organisation  Women's Legal … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 25 August 2022
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Challenges and opportunities for small-scale tea producers in Malawi
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 18 July 2022
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Rural livelihood transformations and local development in Cameroon, Ghana and Tanzania
… rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on poverty dynamics, food security and local development. Based on empirical research … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 March 2017
A group of women in a forest smile as they hold out handfuls of coffee beans
Producer agency and voice in certification schemes
… current pandemic. Small producers play a key role in ensuring global food security and protecting the environment.   De Peña underlined the … The webinar was part of IIED’s Empowering Producers in Commercial agriculture (EPIC)  initiative, funded by the  UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) through its Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) programme. EPIC …
Insight, 26 March 2021
Two women standing in a forest.
Sisters are doing it for themselves in biodiverse Belize
… across Belize, Alice and Amelia want to grow what they need for food while also selling surplus for a reasonable income. So, when the … giving out agroforestry advice and a planting basket of 60 or more food crops, spices, fruit and timber trees, Alice and Amelia jumped at … bark) – and heavily logged mahogany and cedar. Much of Belize’s agriculture involves industrial-scale monocultures that mimic a global …
Insight, 18 March 2024
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An example of an agricultural brokers' association: The Tongzhou Agricultural Brokers' Association
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 June 2008
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Cocoa producer agency and the living income differential: lessons from civil society organisations
… partnerships with progressive private sector actors in commercial agriculture. … Food and agriculture …
Event, 02 June 2021
Somboun Saiborkeno farms coffee on his smallholding on the Bolaven Plateau in Laos. Smallholders in the region are being encouraged to grow high quality and organic coffee for export (Photo: Asian Development Bank)
Scaling up sustainability in smallholder-dominated agricultural sectors
… Food and agriculture …
Project, 23 April 2015
A woman picks beans. She carries a basket with aubergines with her head.
Inclusive dialogue gets priorities of Nepal’s rural producers recognised in local law
… for open dialogue Under the Empowering Rural Producers in Commercial Agriculture (EPIC) project, land rights organisation the Community Self Reliance Centre (CSRC)  and the agricultural cooperative Nepal Agriculture Cooperative Central Federation Limited (NACCFL) established Land and Agriculture Learning Centres (LALCs). The LALCs provided a space for …
Insight, 25 July 2022