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Developing a nutrition-sensitive approach to climate adaptation
Project, 20 August 2025
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Carbon-intensive ultra-processed ingredients subsidised by nearly $43 billion a year
News, 28 November 2023
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Beyond maize: exploring agricultural diversification in Zambia
… cereal and because it restricts the economic multiplier effects of agriculture, limiting potential agro-processing, trading and input … examination or agreement on how to progress.  As part of the Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) project implemented by Hivos and … agricultural research should reflect a priority focus on supporting sustainable diets.  Globally, the private sector still allocates about …
Insight, 22 August 2019
Cover for 16500IIED.pdf
Agricultural Commodities, Trade and Sustainable Development
… Dealing with entrenched rural poverty and major impacts from agriculture on ecosystem viability requires a new look at how commodity … papers prepared for two strategic dialogues on commodities, trade and sustainable development, jointly convened by IIED and the ICTSD. … Sustainable markets … Agricultural Commodities, Trade and Sustainable Development …
Publication, 01 November 2005
Community members during a meeting, sitting down, writing notes and discussing.
Why we need strong farmer organisations to achieve the world’s big environmental goals
… organisations to ensure interventions are locally owned and sustainable in the long term.  The Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Programme (DSL-IP) aims to avoid, reduce … research to advocate for policies that support sustainable agriculture and fosters business partnerships to strengthen value chains …
Insight, 01 September 2025
A woman in a yellow sari and wearing a facemask is standing in a field of crops. She is putting the plants into a bag tied around her waist.
Resilience through flexibility – the story of peri-urban agricultural workers in India
Article, 06 June 2022
Cover for G01056.pdf
Agricultural Commodities, Trade and Sustainable Development
… recently organized jointly by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the International Institute for … second in Barcelona in June 2005 on Commodities Trade, Poverty and Sustainable Development.2 Both brought together a mix of policymakers, … shape an agenda for reform towards pro-poor, sustainability-oriented agriculture policy reform. Findings and further work can be fed into …
Publication, 01 January 2005
Cover for 16600IIED.pdf
Organic coffee production and carbon sequestration in Guatemala: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture?
… of payments. How can future revenues be used to promote organic agriculture beyond the pilot project? This case study forms part of the Hivos-IIED Payments for Ecosystem Services for Smallholder Agriculture series, exploring the potential of carbon offset funding in relation to smallholder agriculture. …
Publication, 01 October 2015
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Addressing the nutrition gap in climate action
Insight, 20 August 2025
Cover for G02628.pdf
The spread of Conservation Agriculture: Justification,sustainability and uptake
… Conservation Agriculture (CA) has been practised for three decades and has spread … ecological underpinnings in order to~manage its various elements for sustainable intensification, where the aim is to optimize resource use … principles and practices that can make a major contribution to sustainable production intensification. This, the first of two papers, …
Publication, 01 January 2009