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Women smallholders replanting rice in the irrigated area around the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Large scale irrigated rice farming: the state must take farmers' perspectives into account
… specialisation – prioritises increasing production to meet national food security needs through rice monoculture, usually by promoting … on the working of irrigation schemes and hence on self-sufficiency in food, but also on the poorest producers. In the words of Jamie Skinner, … Food and agriculture …
News, 03 June 2014
Three people walking and carrying bags on their backs.
Producer agency in certification schemes: challenges and opportunities
… partnerships with progressive private sector actors in commercial agriculture. The vast majority of voluntary certification organisations … Food and agriculture …
Event, 20 January 2020
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Understanding agricultural investment chains: Lessons to improve governance
… seen renewed private and public sector interest in developing country agriculture. A new wave of large-scale acquisitions of farmland has … of rising land values and public policies to promote long-term food and energy security. Despite emerging evidence on certain features … of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security is an important step in that direction. This report has …
Publication, 01 March 2014
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
News, 27 April 2015
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Evolution of Agricultural Research and Development since 1950: Towards an integrated framework
… by the broader sociopolitical environment encompassing the world's food problems and solutions. As experience deepens and the … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 January 1990
a vegetable seller and customers
The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the diets of Hanoi’s urban poor
… until mid-April. People are required to stay at home unless buying food and medicine. Businesses are closed, public transport is suspended and public gatherings are prohibited.  In terms of food provision, only supermarkets and formally registered markets remain … the world every year – street markets, stalls selling traditional food and drinks, hawkers carrying goods on shoulder poles – have been …
Insight, 08 April 2020
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Sustainable Sector Transformation: How to drive sustainability performance in smallholder-dominated agricultural sectors?
… Agriculture has performed well over the last 50 years, in both keeping pace with rapid population growth and in delivering food at progressively lower prices. Unfortunately this growth has led to … production of agricultural commodities is necessary to ensure food security, a healthy natural resource base and human wellbeing. …
Publication, 01 April 2015
Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)
Project, 27 July 2018
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Production alimentaire, expansion agricole et déforestation au Mai-Ndombe, RDC
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 July 2019
Women harvesting brinjal near the Indian city of Gorakhpur. Peri-urban agriculture helps to ensure local food supplies, especially of fruit and vegetables (Photo: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group)
Farming on the city's periphery to enhance resilience
Insight, 09 June 2015