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Banana farmer in the farm, arraigning bananas in the storage space.
Sustainable bananas: what are the impacts on workers?
… (ETI) and IIED to review literature and interview producers and food systems experts. Below are some initial insights. Reducing … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 29 July 2025
Crop field with man watering the soil.
Reconciling food production and forest conservation: priorities for the UN Food Systems Summit
… The 2021 UN Food Systems Summit  taking place later this week aims to provide heads … actionable steps to transform how we produce, process and consume food. The summit provides a real opportunity for reigniting the world’s … lost annually in Zambia. Smallholder farmers, who depend on rainfed agriculture, find themselves both contributing to and at the mercy of a …
Insight, 20 September 2021
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Agrobiodiversity management by the Dayak tribe in Labian and Labian Irang villages in Indonesia
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Publication, 17 December 2025
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Innovations for adopting agroforestry in Ecuador: the role of the APEOSAE Federation
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Publication, 05 September 2025
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Upscaling private sector dryland investment through matchmaking
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Publication, 20 November 2025
Farmer posing next to a cow and calf on his farm.
Agroforestry entrepreneurship by smallholder farmers – regreening Nepal
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Insight, 19 November 2025
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What about seafood? The role of seafood in UK food systems transformation
… that seafood should play a more prominent role in debates about food systems transformation in the UK. We discuss the connections between seafood and the broader food system, and consider seafood’s potential role in food systems transformation in the UK.  We unpack the opportunities this … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 07 March 2024
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Food systems governance and the environmental agenda
… Food systems are major contributors, but also critically vulnerable, to … crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. The food sector uses more natural resources than any other sector, which means that the way in which food systems are governed has direct consequences for how natural … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 13 September 2023
People standing between piles of bananas
African social movements call on UN food summit to give people back control
… Since the end of 2019, the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) has been one of the most talked-about … corporate-controlled approach lies at the heart of Africa's food system's challenge. Coming from a continent where corporations are … the industrial food chain and corporate concentration around food and agriculture, which has been linked to declining health, rising hunger …
Insight, 21 July 2021
Stalls of fruits and vegetables.
Food Systems Summit: implications for global food governance
… As United Nations events go, the Food Systems Summit had a strangely synthetic feel. The virtual … malnutrition and unhealthy diets are on the rise. Industrial-scale agriculture is driving deforestation, carbon emissions and biodiversity … worker exploitation and social inequalities are rife in food production and trade. Small-scale farmers feed the world but often …
Insight, 30 September 2021