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Bester Glandson was lent land and taught to grow soy and groundnuts with support from the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM) (Photo: Olivier Girard/EIF, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building transparency and trust into smallholder commodity trading and contract farming
… seminar supported through IIED’s ' Empowering Producers in Commercial agriculture (EPIC) ' initiative. Our featured speakers were Cuan … to accessing commodity exchanges and set up a partnership with the Agriculture Commodities Exchange for Africa (ACE) to pilot IBCF in the … sector conduct in favour of bottom-up, locally beneficial and more sustainable investments in commercial agriculture. EPIC is funded by UK …
Insight, 13 November 2018
A view of the Houses of Parliament, home of the Environmental Audit Committee which has warned that the government risks undermining new global development goals (Photo: Skeeze, via pixabay)
MPs warn UK government against limiting sustainable development goals
… Audit Committee (EAC)  that the government's position on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) threatened the universal scope of … As a leading member of the Independent Research Forum on a Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (IRF2015) , IIED has been working … the agreements put in place by the UN Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals . Read the EAC report . Quotes Tom Bigg , …
News, 15 December 2014
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Sowing innovation for sustainable food
… Food and agriculture … Sowing innovation for sustainable food …
Publication, 01 January 2012
A welder uses home-made equpiment in Kenya, where the Jua Kali (informal economy) thrives and can solve any problem (Photo: Erik (HASH) Hersman, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Lessons from the informal sector
… sectors where informal actors are most active, such as manufacturing, agriculture, construction and transport, are also the key sectors that … agricultural sector, many smallholder farmers have been implementing sustainable agriculture practices for millennia. There is an opportunity … farmers questioning the tools and practices being forward to promote sustainable agriculture.  The thriving nature of informal enterprise in …
Insight, 24 February 2016
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SDG2: achieving food security, sustainability and resilience using genetic diversity and indigenous knowledge
Publication, 01 December 2016
Corporate responsibility: what's in a name?
… works alone? How can you mainstream it? And how can you make it more sustainable? When it comes to CSR as a route to improving rural … Food and agriculture … Sustainable markets …
Article, 27 June 2011
Title screen of the Life beyond maize film
IIED and Hivos film calls for life beyond maize in Zambia
… ' Life beyond maize ' film shows interviews with Zambian Minister of Agriculture Dora Siliya, a small-scale farmer, and a working family. … first in a series of four films that will be made for the five-year 'Sustainable diets for all (SD4A)' programme . Sustainable diets for all operates in Zambia, Uganda, Bolivia and …
News, 10 October 2017
A villager gathers medicinal bark in Mozambique
Investing in sustainable productivity could secure REDD+ schemes long term
Insight, 13 December 2012
A farmer tending his sunflowers in Kenya. Credit: Abbi Buxton
A day in the life of a commercial consultant
… the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -funded New Business Models for Sustainable Trading Relationships project , IIED has been working with a … grown by smallholder Kenyan farmers to UK and US supermarkets. IIED’s sustainable development expertise has been complemented by the … helped Wilmar Agro Ltd develop and manage a commercially-viable and sustainable supply chain and build a network of contacts and links with …
Insight, 14 February 2012
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Money from within: leveraging producer organisations' finance
… solidarity, empower women, increase climate resilience and fund sustainable, productive activities, often at significant scale.  These … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 03 April 2024