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Mecati Forest, Mozambique: a group of charcoal producers clear trees and prepare to make charcoal. Each year more than eight million bags of charcoal are produced by Mozambique's informal sector (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
The informal economy and sustainable development
… increasingly clear that if attempts to achieve green growth and sustainable development are to succeed, they must be rooted in a sound … enterprise in policymaking and business strategy.  Our Shaping Sustainable Markets (SSM)   initiative is providing a platform … sectors . We are studying the drivers and impacts of informality in agriculture, logging, and mining in sub-Saharan Africa . This work aims …
Project, 20 January 2016
Uganda food lab participants add their names to a declaration that came out of the lab discussions (Photo: Nimrod Bagonza)
Food Change Labs tackle complex issues with the whole system in the room
… outcomes, such as the Lusaka Municipal Food Council, a Youth for Sustainable Food Group in Zambia, and a local multi-stakeholder … Food and agriculture … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 30 January 2019
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Strengthening capacity for advocacy in food systems of the poor
… free choices.  In this paper we highlight lessons and insights from Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All), an advocacy programme that focuses … Food and agriculture … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 08 December 2020
Workshop participants in Mozambique discuss results from group work on how to make farming more sustainable (Photo: Lynn Boyd, ADRA Mozambique)
Five ways to make farming more sustainable
… to markets, land and employment. Low external input, sustainable agricultural practices such as agroecology and organic … while at the same time being more climate-resilient, environmentally sustainable, and ensuring healthy and productive soils into the future. Promoting sustainable agriculture in Mozambique A scoping study on sustainable agriculture in …
Insight, 20 May 2015
Plates of traditional Kabarole food
Creating knowledge and supporting action: citizen-generated evidence from food diaries in Uganda
… , posed to people in Fort Portal, Western Uganda. KRC is a partner of Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) , a Hivos and IIED programme that … from the discussion paper ' Citizen-generated Evidence for a More Sustainable and Healthy Food System '. We also shared findings from the food diary research. The key event outcomes are available on the Sustainable Diets for All website. …
Insight, 14 September 2018
A group of people form a circle in the forest. One person is speaking
Diversification for climate resilience: a global priority
… Food and agriculture … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 10 October 2022
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Payments for Ecosystem Services in smallholder agriculture: lessons from the Hivos-IIED Learning Trajectory
… for ecosystem services (PES) as incentives to promote a shift to sustainable smallholder agriculture. Results from this research are published in the Payments for Ecosystem Services in Smallholder Agriculture series. We focus on practical learning from existing … Sustainable markets … Payments for Ecosystem Services in smallholder agriculture: lessons from the Hivos-IIED Learning Trajectory …
Publication, 01 September 2015
Two women sitting down and speaking to each other.
Sustaining coffee producers’ agency in the context of COVID-19
… in Kenya that aims to tackle barriers to an inclusive, fair and sustainable coffee sector. Its main focus is promoting access and agency … agency of women and young coffee producers Vava Angwenyi said that agriculture is an important sector in Kenya, but there are many barriers … enterprise with the aim of disrupting the coffee sector and enhancing sustainable livelihoods for smallholder farmers, focusing on women and …
Insight, 04 August 2020
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Sustainable intensification revisited
… Sustainable intensification is receiving growing attention as a way to … concept was developed, this briefing revisits the term and asks what sustainable intensification is — a useful guiding framework for raising agricultural productivity on existing arable land in a sustainable manner; and what it is not — a paradigm for achieving food …
Publication, 01 March 2015
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Sustainable intensification revisited
Publication, 01 March 2015