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Designing Integrated Pest Management for Sustainable and Productive Futures
… Pests have plagued agriculture ever since people began domesticating plants and animals. … to dangerous products in the workplace, and contaminated air, food and water. … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 January 1991
Tanzania has just 20 years to adapt agriculture to climate change, warn economists
… The researchers predict that impacts of climate change in Tanzania's agriculture sector will reduce the nation’s total GDP by 0.6-1% by 2030. … country's entire economy as so many other sectors are dependent on agriculture," says economist Muyeye Chambwera, who co-authored the … on helping farmers adapt to climate impacts by addressing both food production and marketing efficiencies. "To continue its recent …
News, 01 October 2009
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Exploitations familiales et entreprises agricoles dans la zone des Niayes au Sénégal
… work is part of IIED’s programme on transformations in West African agriculture and the role of family farms which aims to feed into the … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 March 2005
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 4 Information for food security planning: asking local people Case studies from Sudan and Mali
… Information needs for food security planning are typically determined by donors or national government. Whilst the need to promote food security planning at sub-national as well as national level has … obvious example. Attempts to find objective indicators to quantify food insecurity have been a driving force. One of the consequences of …
Publication, 01 January 1988
Farmers from Mali and neighbouring countries.
International farmers exchange for mutual learning: Privatisation of knowledge and seeds
… the world so that they could better claim and realise their rights to food sovereignty at the Nyéléni event that followed. Over the course of … agroecology and approaches to seeds and knowledge as an expression of food sovereignty. A summary of the points expressed by the press … were: Support the use of traditional seeds and animal breeds for food sovereignty Stop in the privatization of seeds and biopiracy Ban …
News, 03 February 2009
Knowledge programme publications
… to contribute solutions in areas ranging from poverty reduction and food security to climate change adaptation. Small-scale farmer … we must look at how the poor make markets work for them. Transforming agriculture in Uganda: nine points for action (opinion paper) Issue 44: … Food and agriculture …
Article, 14 May 2013
Oxen plough teams bring bigger fields and easier farmwork (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)
Notes from the field – Dlonguebougou, Mali
… and west to Dlonguebougou and beyond, begging land to grow their food. The proportion of land now cultivated around Dlonguebougou is now … they have lost their farmland, they want an irrigated plot to grow food. Otherwise, as they say, "we call ourselves farmers, but can you … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 11 April 2017
Business models for sustainable development
… that work: Roots of success: cultivating viable community forestry Food and agriculture Two major IIED projects in the food and agriculture sector relate to business models for sustainable … Food and agriculture …
Article, 10 May 2010
Seed industry ignores farmers' rights to adapt to climate change
… Conference which opens tomorrow (8 September) at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. The researchers — from the … Food and agriculture …
News, 07 September 2009
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Reviving knowledge: India’s rainfed farming, variability and diversity
… their capacity to work with the diversity and variability of rainfed agriculture. But with support that complements the variable nature of … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 August 2015