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Urbanization and its implications for food and farming
… This discusses the influences on food and farming of an increasingly urbanized world and a declining ratio of food producers to food consumers. Urbanization has been underpinned by … and of workers in industrial and service enterprises. Globally, agriculture has met the demands from this rapidly growing urban …
Publication, 01 September 2010
Local sheep varieties in the Potato Park, Peru, where an agreement was recently forged to share indigenous crop varieties and knowledge about how to grow them in different climates and landscapes (Photo: IIED)
Indigenous farmers from Peru, China and Bhutan agree to share seeds for climate adaptation
News, 08 May 2014
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Planning and costing agriculture’s adaptation to climate change - Synthesis Report
… Changing climate will have adverse effects on food production, food distribution, infrastructure, land availability for agriculture, and livelihood assets and opportunities in rural and urban … Planning and costing agriculture’s adaptation to climate change - Synthesis Report …
Publication, 01 November 2011
View of a road cutting through a forest
Wild meat: is there an appetite for alternatives?
… world to recognise biodiversity as critical for safeguarding global food security, and as the foundation of human health. Sustainable use of … depleting animal populations present threats to both conservation and food security. The power of tradition, taboo and personal taste … Diversity shines a spotlight on the inextricable link between food security, human wellbeing and biodiversity. If we are to “ bend the …
Insight, 21 May 2019
Regenerating Agriculture
… It is becoming increasingly clear that a more sustainable agriculture can bring economic, environmental and social benefits to … evidence, farmers are still ëlocked' into modernist approaches to agriculture with their dependency on high levels of external inputs. The basic aim for Regenerating Agriculture, therefore, is to identify the common elements of success …
Publication, 01 March 1995
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Actors of change: can socio-legal empowerment support rural producer agency?
Publication, 01 January 2019
A vegetable seller with a food truck peels a cucumber
Urban poor community voices take to the stage at the World Urban Forum
… from Dhaka’s urban poor communities to more people than ever before. Food struggles At the session hosted by the Asian Coalition for Housing … FAO, Nepali NGO Lumanti and IIED, the panel set out how skyrocketing food prices, poor quality produce in food markets and inadequate basic services are leaving urban poor …
Insight, 19 February 2020
Woman holding rice plants
COP15: putting gender at the heart of biodiversity governance
… climate change research reveals that rural women are the biggest food producers and caregivers – making up approximately 70% of Africa’s agricultural workforce, and growing approximately 90% of its food. A global South lens is crucial when thinking about biodiversity, …
Insight, 24 November 2022
Indigenous communities sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, near Cusco, Peru. Credit: Asociacion ANDES
Traditional innovation in farming is under threat
… Governments and donors invest millions to deliver 'climate smart agriculture'. Yet indigenous farming practices already conserve natural … from our plates in little more than a century. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, only about 30 crops now provide 95 … Governments need to recognise that innovation by farmers is key for food security — it is as important as scientific innovation. This means …
Insight, 02 October 2013
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Peasant Seeds are the Way Forward for Africa's Food Sovereignty. Bamako Declaration February 2007
… and practices of ecological farming, · seed conservation and the food & cultural sovereignty of each country,- and the ability of traditional seeds to nurture and guide food and farming future in ways that sustain nature and the livelihoods … Food and agriculture … Peasant Seeds are the Way Forward for Africa's Food Sovereignty. Bamako Declaration February 2007 …
Publication, 01 February 2007