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A Bolivian woman stallholder sells potatoes and other vegetables. Bolivian diets are changing, moving away from traditional foods and towards processed foods (Photo: Mauricio Panozo, Lucano Photography)
The Bolivian diet: women’s voices and choices
… them more sustainable is a part of the work of the Sustainable diets for all programme being implemented by IIED and Hivos . The programme is … have seen in Bolivan diets. You can see the exhibition below. “We are what we eat,” says Carla Molina Butrón , a member of Fundación Centro de … 14 years old, but she returns to her rural community to work on the land, planting and harvesting traditional crops, notably potatoes. In …
News, 08 March 2019
Plan Vivo partners at a conference in Sweden commit to actively engage in the implementation and accountability of the SDGs (Photo: Plan Vivo Foundation)
The SDGs speak and we like what we hear
Insight, 15 October 2015
Mary Robinson addresses the Development and Climate Days, with (from left to right), Katharine Mach, IPCC; Claudia Martinez, CDKN; Janos Pasztor, UN (Photo: Climate Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mary Robinson: global solidarity needed to confront climate crisis
Insight, 09 December 2015
Indigenous communities sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, near Cusco, Peru. Credit: Asociacion ANDES
Traditional innovation in farming is under threat
… by building on knowledge and practices refined over generations. For instance, farmers around the world experiment with local crops to … and men who work them, are among the last refuges and guardians for what remains of the world's crop diversity. Conventional seed banks may … but the fields are living laboratories in which an army of innovators works daily. They need government and scientific recognition and …
Insight, 02 October 2013
Annual report 2007/08
… involved all sectors of society in mapping out their national plans for climate adaptation. Airing ideas for greener aviation:  with the … research on the links between biofuels, climate change and land access informed and balanced a heated international debate. … in climate-proof farming. With IIED and a local NGO, they researched what makes for successful sustainable food systems. Helping West African …
Page, 23 December 2008
Haramata Communications Initiative
Article, 13 October 2008
Protecting needs of forest-dependent people is key to saving Congo Basin forests
… led by IIED that includes event organisers Fern , the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) and the African Institute for Social and Economic Development (INADES Cameroon). It works to protect the forests in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, … to maintain their customary territories and to decide for themselves what to do with their forests and secure their rights to decide how the …
News, 08 February 2019
A London workshop heard about the human stories of gold mining from artisanal and small-scale miners in Tanzania (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
Bright prospects for mining sector dialogue
… of actors that make up the sector into the room together to discuss what these barriers currently look like for them on a daily basis.  The workshop, funded by the Ford Foundation … that by 2030, around half of all copper and gold will be mined on land used or claimed by local people or those in ASM, making dialogues …
News, 30 June 2015
The lives of Vasanthi and Gopal have been transformed by the low-cost toilet provided as part of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why sanitation, spearhead of urban improvement in the 19th century, has become the laggard of the 21st
… the costs. Given the political commitment, the financial requirements for moving towards universal coverage can be planned for. This … challenge Agreeing on improvements is complicated, since what is affordable in very low-income neighbourhoods is rarely … become more secure, turning on its head the familiar adage that land tenure insecurity undermines the willingness to invest in better …
Insight, 04 March 2015
Two rice terraces with a small forest growing between them in Nepal.
Nepal: Forestry and agriculture and the story of their fake divorce
… happily married forestry and agricultural practices on their land, and have done so for generations. Fragmented forest plots on the edges of farms have … C., Roquemore S., and Saxon E., 2011. The Root of the Problem, What's Driving Tropical Deforestation Today , Union of Concerned …
Insight, 18 July 2013