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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
… Food and agriculture …
Insight, 15 January 2016
Woman looking to the front holding a water hose, a solar panel in the background
Where’s the capital for homegrown companies? Why energy access investments in Kenya need to go local
… needed to accelerate and deploy the SHS systems necessary to achieve sustainable energy for all (as Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7  calls for) in Kenya. The Shell … using subsidies to target and incentivise specific impacts in agriculture, developing a model for how to incentivise local ownership …
Insight, 29 December 2020
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Agroecology - What it is and what it has to offer
… systems,agroecology is gaining momentum as a scientific discipline, sustainable farming approach and social movement. There is growing … shift in how we as a society define‘productive’ and ‘efficient’ agriculture. … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 June 2014
An image of Mohammad Sayedul Haque, the Bangladesh Minister of Fisheries and Livestock alongside a table around which sit participants from Bangladesh, Myanmar and India as they discuss sustainable hilsa fishery management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Scientists call for international collaboration to safeguard hilsa fish stocks
… This video looks at efforts to encourage sustainable fisheries in Bangladesh Scientists, academics and officials … in Bangladesh, and to explore opportunities for collaboration on sustainable fisheries between Bangladesh, India and Myanmar.  … collaborative research and development opportunities for sustainable hilsa fisheries management and development in the Bay of …
News, 06 May 2016
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Bundling agri-food systems innovations for women's resilience and empowerment - Building the evidence base
… any chance of achieving the goal of healthy, equitable, resilient and sustainable systems. These interventions can be better understood and … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 31 October 2023
Race to the Top
Project, 25 June 2008
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Sustainability Amidst Diversity: Options for rural households in Mali
… This research into sustainable rural livelihoods describes the complexities of local … differences between those households whose livelihoods are seen as sustainable and those less able to make ends meet. The research … history is presented to show how this has affected the evolution of agriculture and rural livelihoods. Local institutions, agricultural …
Publication, 01 January 2000
NGOs: friend or foe to markets for the poor?
… Food and agriculture … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 06 April 2011
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Managing land and water resources by consensus: the Anambé irrigation scheme charter
… scheme charter sets out management principles for efficient and sustainable agricultural development. The charter is based on a … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 November 2015
A Rwandan farmers stands in her field of maize with hills rising behind her in the background.
Feeding the World: Why we must do more than just increase yields
… The paper urges a rethink of the increasingly popular policy goal of "sustainable intensification", which aims to produce more food per unit … and resilience, and reduce the resource-intensity of consumption. “Sustainable intensification — as policymakers currently understand it— … that these farmers can participate." Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Premises and Policies …
News, 05 July 2013