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Food vendors give people living in Nairobi's informal settlements easy access to fresh food (Photo: Grace Githiri)
Nourishing livelihoods: the food vendors sustaining Nairobi's slums
… vegetables, snacks, and cooked foods. But unlike food vendors in markets or downtown streets, vendors in informal settlements are often … of Korogocho and Viwandani ,  using surveys, maps and focus group discussions with food vendors.  Korogocho is a large informal … awareness among vendors, who have also begun advocating for food markets in their settlements. The project "has helped us redefine …
Insight, 15 January 2016
MMSD – draft materials
… MMSD – workshops, meetings and presentations MMSD – assurance group and project information MMSD – draft materials MMSD – main project … International Council on Mining and Metals International Copper Study Group IUCN International Zinc Association JATAM International Labour … and Human Rights Society of St Columban RV Berkel (Western Australian Sustainable Industry Group ) Virotec TW Waelde World Bank Mining …
Article, 04 March 2009
Informal food vendors in Mathare, Nairobi. Understanding food consumption and how food systems work is essential to support food security (Photo: Cecilia Tacoli/IIED)
Urbanisation, rural-urban transformations and food systems
… food consumption and food systems that include processing, transport, markets and all related activities – generate different pathways of … food security and livelihoods of low-income groups while fostering sustainable rural-urban transitions.  This project addressed a number of … in linking producers to wider (urban national, regional and global) markets, and in providing local opportunities for income …
Project, 31 August 2016
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Ecotourism brochure
… Ecotourism leaflet from the project "Sustainable tourism in the Srepok Wilderness Area, Cambodia, led by the Sustainable Markets Group, IIED and WWF Cambodia. …
Publication, 01 June 2010
Roasted coffee beans.
World Food Day: how do you keep co-operatives competitive?
… del Café (JNC) in Peru. It took JNC a decade to compete in demanding markets while balancing needs of farmers, a social component, and … a scheme linking rural producers to urban food needs through weekly markets . CECOSESOLA has kept its independence, putting members’ needs … mostly emphasised one approach: value chain interventions to ‘ make markets work for the poor .’ But too often ‘inclusive business’ schemes …
Insight, 15 October 2012
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Delivering climate and development finance to the poorest: intermediaries that ‘leave no-one behind’
Publication, 01 November 2015
Indonesia: Reshaping the debate on small-scale farmers
… value chains. The experiences of the various international learning group members provided for insightful discussions with the farmers on the challenges they faced in Indonesia in engaging with markets and also with their local governments. The Learning Network … the role of intermediaries in linking producers to export and super markets in Indonesia. We will soon be publishing a report on this.    …
Insight, 17 February 2012
Large-scale debt swaps can help fight debt, climate change and nature loss together
… and private lenders as debt will be invested productively to increase sustainable economic growth and so reduce the need for further debt … back on track, they need to seize the opportunity not only to repair markets but also address the triple crisis of debt, climate change and … community to work with debtors to establish a technical working group, under guidance of an international body such as the World Bank, …
News, 07 September 2020
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Protecting our ocean: Make Change Happen podcast episode 1
… Change Happen’ podcast provides in-depth coverage of key issues in sustainable development today, and how we will play our part to make … He is joined by Laura Kelly , director of IIED’s Shaping Sustainable Markets research group , who looks at how to engage investors in protecting marine …
Article, 23 August 2019
A tour group from ecotourism business Adventures in the Last Corridor explore possible caving tour options (Photo: Cathy Smith)
Business incubation motivates fire management
… makes much more sense where local people are making good money from sustainable use of those resources – protecting what they depend on. … for women – but growing demand for good quality local food. A women's group plan to develop a business called 'Xibe'. Xibe aims to provide … are to develop pilot projects in chicken and tilapia to ensure that group members have the required capacity to run larger investments. Trio …
Insight, 06 March 2017