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Fatima Denton delivers the 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture at the British Library in London in November 2014 (Photo: Julius Honnor/IIED)
2014 Barbara Ward Lecture: Fatima Denton calls for a "new paradigm" for African development
… and this was reflected  in the continent's natural resource depletion Agriculture was poorly integrated with other sectors such as … for the benefit of the whole world, while engineering its pathway to sustainable development, particularly in the domain of food production … economic growth and energy consumption, Africa needed to move towards sustainable and renewable sources of energy – an area where Africa had …
Event, 20 November 2014
Cover for G03614.pdf
Prioritising scarce resources for facilitated support of small forest and on-farm tree enterprises: Proceedings of the third international Forest Connect workshop
… was held from 12 to 15 February 2013, hosted by Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources (ANSAB). It addressed this key issue: how …
Publication, 01 June 2013
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Innovating to compete: Smallholder farmers' agency and markets in East Africa
… well as mitigating volatility of food prices. Attempts to modernise agriculture have not significantly changed its nature. IIED/Hivos … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 November 2012
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¿Cómo se posicionan los pequenos productores en America Latina respecto a los mercados?
… Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 March 2013
Seeds carefully picked from a pile of rotting and old beans in Mali.
Food waste: can grassroots initiatives stop us throwing good food in the bin?
Insight, 04 June 2013
The CBD COP13 logo. IIED and partners will be at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December
IIED at the biodiversity COP in Cancun
… to negotiate international measures to ensure conservation and the sustainable use of biodiversity. Some 10,000 people representing … a global agreement to promote the conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable … 2011-20 strategic plan and the Aichi goals , with an emphasis on agriculture, forestry, fisheries and tourism sectors. Governing bodies …
Event, 04 December 2016
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 3 The use of sustainability analysis in Northeast Thailand
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 January 1988
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 8 Participatory self-evaluation of World Neighbors, Burkina Faso
Publication, 01 January 1998
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Learning Network brochure
… the food crises of 2007-2008 and 2010-11 have renewed interest in agriculture and small-scale producers. Much of this interest has focused … small-scale producers can prosper in the face of the major changes in agriculture and food markets that globalisation has ushered in. … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 March 2011
Slash and burn, pictured in the Mopeia district, Zambezia province, Mozambique, has a noble motive – feeding families - but it is not sustainable (Photo: Isilda Nhantumbo/IIED)
REDD+: missionaries, conservation fortresses and the politics of carbon landscapes in Africa
… delivering more productive and climate-smart solutions on both the agriculture and energy fronts. But we have to want to use past knowledge … role in shifting the development paradigm towards economies based on sustainable land uses. The message from various discussions at the … the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), spoke about sustainable agriculture and whether it can halt deforestation Hamid …
Insight, 23 December 2015