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Towards food sovereignty: local organisations at the heart of food sovereignty (Part II: Chapter 4)
… ‘Towards Food Sovereignty’ is an online book with full color photo illustrations … chapter describes the role of local organisations in sustaining local food systems, livelihoods and the environmen. The photos, video clips … show farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, fisherfolk, food workers and consumers all working to promote food sovereignty, …
Publication, 01 December 2008
Relocated street vendors operate in the car park below the alun-alun of the Masjid Raya Mosque in Bandung, but this basement area does not attract many customers and vendors have to breathe in car and motorcycle fumes due to the poor air circulation (Photo: Kemal Jufri/Panos Pictures)
Building trust through dialogue with street-food vendors
… Mas Jo is an informal street-food vendor, plying his trade to middle and low-income customers near … makes my business successful: people come here to eat a different food. It's my niche. I am not moving." But move he must, according to municipal legislation intended to regulate where the city's 20,000 food vendors can sell their goods.  This gap between government plans …
Insight, 05 November 2015
‘Virtuous circles’ can help secure food supplies and address climate change
News, 22 November 2011
Dr John Ingram speaking on food security at IIED (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
IIED 'Critical Theme' seminar: Climate change and food security
… the complex interactions between human activities related to food and nutrition and the environment.  Ingram said that food system activities, such as producing, processing and distributing food, were affecting the environment. At the same time, half the global … Food and agriculture … IIED 'Critical Theme' seminar: Climate change and food security …
Event, 12 February 2015
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Biocultural heritage territories
… of local economies, and are home to critical genetic resources for food and agriculture. Across the world, years of local adaptation and traditional … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 November 2014
A herbalist shares information on medicinal and food plants growing in Kaya Kinondo Sacred Coastal Forest in Kenya
Smallholder innovation for resilience (SIFOR)
… for resilience (SIFOR): strengthening innovation systems for food security in the face of climate change ', which formed part of a … qualitative and quantitative baseline studies on trends in climate, food security and crop diversity and biocultural innovations and … traditional knowledge-based or ‘biocultural’ innovations that enhance food security, resilience, livelihoods and biodiversity – some very …
Project, 16 August 2013
Top: Sohel Ahmed and colleague prepare to release the balloon; bottom: Some of the photographs taken from the air (Photos: Sohel Ahmed)
Up in the air: Citizen scientists map food dangers in Nairobi
… it, and some interviews are helping the team map a hidden aspect of food insecurity in an informal settlement in Nairobi. By walking through … information about the area, and what they are most interested in is food. Cycle of risk The project's citizen scientists are mapping how … and hot meals. These vendors play an important part of the city's food security – feeding thousands of people each day – but they cannot …
Insight, 31 March 2014
Man moves charcoal with a shovel
How innovative shared labels are promoting diversity, biocultural heritage and sustainable production
… Disruptions to global supply chains and threats to widespread food security highlight the need to strengthen regional and domestic … tackle the complex, interlinking global challenges of poverty, food insecurity, ecosystem degradation and climate change. Growing … in Vietnam catering to a growing national demand for pesticide-free food products; or the Kishan Chautari multistakeholder participatory …
Insight, 20 March 2023
A market stall. According to recent studies, 75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species (Photo: Hivos)
Cooking for our future
… We all need to eat, (hopefully) three times a day. Demand for food is steady and constantly growing. Selling the right food product for the right price at the right place is a perfect recipe for business success. But this has led to a global food system that prioritises profit over social, health and …
Insight, 20 February 2019
A Rwandan farmers stands in her field of maize with hills rising behind her in the background.
Feeding the World: Why we must do more than just increase yields
News, 05 July 2013