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The inconvenient truth about ‘capacity’ strengthening in global development
… low-income countries to decline. We want development outcomes to be sustainable and based on local solutions that are embedded in, and owned … strengthening Experience from a five-year advocacy programme, Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) , jointly implemented by IIED and … with CSOs on access to, and affordability of, diverse, healthy and sustainable diets.  Advocacy capacity strengthening was juxtaposed with …
Insight, 08 December 2020
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Conserving India's Agro-Biodiversity: Prospects and policy implications
Publication, 01 January 1997
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Sustainable animal welfare: community-led action for improving care and livelihoods (PLA 66)
Publication, 01 September 2013
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Protecting and promoting traditional knowledge in India: what role for geographical indications?
… Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 May 2015
Transforming agri-food research for citizen participation and the public good
… sciences to develop more resilient, socially just and ecologically sustainable food systems The policy and practical implications of … from Mali (to come) Media links for India Research trends worry agriculture scientists , Asian Age, New Delhi, July 10th 2009 Meet to … farmers: ADARSA , The Hindu, June 30th 2009 Facilitate democratising agriculture research , The Deccan Herald Paper …
Article, 15 July 2009
Lushoto, Tanzania: Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into agroforestry. Here a tree nursery group discusses the challenges and opportunities (Photo: P Kimeli/CCAFS)
Look beyond the trees: the SDGs will have to do more than just 'protect forests'
… community grapples with finalising a set of targets, called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be achieved by 2030. The UN … reinforce those underlying conditions that allow forests to deliver sustainable development outcomes.  Read the full report. Yet policy … Responsible and sustainable private sector practices Sustainable agriculture and food systems, and integrated water management Negotiated …
Insight, 04 November 2014
The Potato Park, Peru, which hosted a previous meeting of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (Image: IIED)
Mountain communities rebuild diverse, climate-resilient crops
News, 06 October 2015
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Land rights and investments: why the IFC performance standards are not enough: A comparison with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
… Land-based investments – from agriculture to infrastructure, extractives and manufacturing – raise …
Publication, 01 October 2019
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Mexico’s Payments for Ecosystem Services Programme
Publication, 01 March 2018
An image showing rabbits raised in elevated cages. This and manure being collected for the worm composting and to create organic fertilizers illustrate a permaculture food production system in action (Photo: Khanh Tran-Thanh/IIED)
Farming the future: Cuba's food transformation
… chemical fertilisers and fuel that had sustained the island's agriculture. State-run farms quickly came to a standstill and Cuba's … to grow food. The Cuban organopónico – a system of organic urban agriculture for local needs – was born.  Cuba now has around 8,000 … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 19 May 2016