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Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
Article, 12 November 2021
Entrance to a garden
Taking stock: community responses to COVID-19 in cities
… global urban change.  To date, 11 blogs have been published on this theme including nine city case studies. Although these show diverse … meals for unemployed and vulnerable community members Providing food delivery services Setting up hand- and foot-washing stations … within the communities on borrowed land (see later section on urban agriculture), and Launching livelihood projects to help those who have …
Insight, 19 October 2021
A dish of amatehe
Protecting indigenous foods, preserving biodiversity – the solutions are in nature
… ecosystem that helps deliver basic human needs, including food. Biodiversity keeps water fresh and air clean; it increases soil … Other factors, including a decline in land dedicated to indigenous agriculture, threaten the survival of Uganda’s indigenous food systems. … and protect indigenous food systems and local biodiversity.  The theme for this year’s international biodiversity day should be a …
Insight, 22 May 2020
Two men on the side of a mountain; one bends over to pick up two sacks, the other carries them on his shoulders
Promoting better policy and citizen agency in the mining sector
Project, 22 December 2021
A man buying fresh fruit at a market stall.
How COVID-19 is impacting and changing East Africa’s agri-food systems
… Giulia Nicolini looks at how COVID-19 is affecting East African food systems and highlights the need to develop a joined-up approach to … Efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 have severely disrupted agri-food supply chains in East Africa, putting a strain on the millions of … partners as part of an IKEA Foundation-funded project on sustainable agriculture in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.  Resources Below is …
Article, 07 August 2020
A woman using a hoe
Q&A: Achieving sustainable intensification of agriculture – decisions and trade-offs
… funded the SAIRLA programme to look at sustainable intensification of agriculture in Africa. The programme has three themes: equity, … environment and development. The tension of needing to produce more food for growing populations against achieving environmental and social … occur mostly between short-term economic objectives (producing food and earning cash for immediate needs) and longer term social and …
Article, 17 February 2020
Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)
… of dryland ecosystems across sub-Saharan Africa, where rain-fed agriculture and pastoralism characterises local subsistence and is the … there is concern they will be unable to meet national targets for food and water security, leaving some countries continually dependent on … drylands policymakers and practitioners in Kenya. Based around the theme of ‘valuing variability’, the course used the findings of applied …
Project, 27 July 2018
Two women talking to each other at a crowded event.
Strengthening local voices in the governance of food systems and the environment
… Establishing inclusive governance of food systems — where farmers and other citizens play an active role in designing and implementing food and agricultural policies — is not just a matter of equity or … sustainable livelihoods and environments. And yet, across the world, food system governance is marked by exclusionary processes that favour …
Project, 01 September 2011
Two women wearing traditional gowns stand in a maize field
EbA Evidence and Policy: China
… provincial governments in Southwest China and the Ministry of Agriculture to gain policy insights from a project that used EbA to help … It also aimed to conserve crop diversity and resilient landraces for food security and climate adaptation. It worked to link local and formal … photography exhibition about traditional farming culture. Under the theme of "Sowing Diversity, Harvesting Security”, the event also …
Project, 13 June 2018
Home workers making bouquets (Photo: Siddharth Agarwal/UHRC)
Addressing risks facing informal workers
… focused on three themes: waste collection and recycling, urban agriculture and food selling, and water access. India In India, we worked with the Urban … to the family income in India, and How women working in peri-urban agriculture in India have to adapt to changing circumstances …
Project, 01 October 2018