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An elderly woman in a field holds crops in the air with both hands

Indigenous food systems, biocultural heritage and agricultural resilience

Active Project

A solar panel outside a rural house on stilts

Critical theme: Can China help build a global eco-civilisation?

Event on 25 September 2019

An African man makes a speech in front of a banner in Chinese

Our previous work on China

Article, 01 August 2019

Three men look out over a pond

China in the world

Article, 01 August 2019

A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber

China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?

Insight, 19 June 2019

Workshop participants displayed and exchanged seeds from different parts of the world (Image: Yiching Song/Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy)

New film shows Chinese mountain communities protecting biocultural heritage

News, 14 March 2017

The Stone Village Seed Park lies in the Himalayan foothills of Yunnan, Southwest China. It is the homeland of the ethnic minority Naxi people.

Biocultural heritage territories film now in Spanish

News, 30 August 2016

Hundreds of power-tillers from China lie unused in Ethiopia. They can be used to plow, power a water-pump, and generate electricity, but low sales were thought to be caused by a lack of technical information, showing how China's role in African agriculture must be researched (Photo: IFPRI-IMAGES, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Chinese engagement in African agriculture is not what it seems

Insight, 06 April 2016

South Africa President Jacob Zuma speaks to China counterpart Xi Jinping at the FOCAC summit in Sandton, Johannesburg in 2015. China is increasingly influential in Africa (Photo: GCIS/GovernmentZA, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

CSR practices of Chinese businesses in the global South

Insight, 31 March 2016

Women harvesting vegetables in Shanggula village, Guangxi province, China, can share lessons on sustainable farming with the rest of the world (Photo: Simon Lim)

Nurturing the shoots of China's sustainable agriculture

Insight, 23 March 2016

A forest near Ngon village, Ebolowa district, in Cameroon, which will host an event to bring together Chinese, African and international stakeholders to discuss trade and investment impacting Africa's forests (Photo: Photo by Ollivier Girard for Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Creative Commons, via Flickr)

China-Africa forest governance strengthened with Cameroon event

News, 19 June 2015

Wang Zhi, assistant production manager of Jiamusi Zhongheng Thermoelectric Ltd, which was built in 1999 to provide 1.75 million GJ annually for Dalkia with an annual coal consumption of 350,000 tons (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

The flipside of China's shift away from coal

Insight, 16 June 2015

Chinese timber business in Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)

China-Africa trade and investment: benefiting Africa's rural informal economy?

Insight, 31 March 2015

A farmer in a buckwheat field close to harvest time in Gansu Province, China. The country's agriculture is currently facing major environmental challenges (Photo: Han Jianping)

Sustainable agriculture in China: then and now

Insight, 26 March 2015

Chronic air pollution is part of everyday life for many people in China. This photo shows Anyang, the most northern city of China's Henan province (Photo: V.T. Polywoda, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Critical theme: China pollution, social media and politics

Event on 16 March 2015

Images of indigenous biocultural heritage territories are profiled in a new photofilm (Photo: IIED)

New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories

News, 11 November 2014

The timber depot of Green Timber, a Chinese-owned timber concession that are licensed to operate in Nampula and Zambezia provinces, Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)

China-Africa Forest Governance project

Active Project

Our new interactive visualisation plots countries’ incomes per capita against their levels of urbanisation

Let's see what the BRICS teach us about urbanisation and economic growth

Insight, 16 September 2014

Local sheep varieties in the Potato Park, Peru, where an agreement was recently forged to share indigenous crop varieties and knowledge about how to grow them in different climates and landscapes (Photo: IIED)

Indigenous farmers from Peru, China and Bhutan agree to share seeds for climate adaptation

News, 08 May 2014

A Chinese journalist interviews fellow journalists in Kenya (Photo: YiDe Media)

China-Africa relations: Fresh perspectives from Chinese journalists on environmental challenges

Insight, 02 May 2014

A line of Christmas trees. Photo: Brett Flanders (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Sustainable development requires an infusion of love

Insight, 20 December 2013

The platform launch brought together high-level African and Chinese officials, policymakers, researchers and forestry experts (Photo: Simon Lim)

Platform set for China-Africa forest governance action

Article, 09 December 2013

Countryside in Guangxi Autonomous Region, China. Photo: Duncan Macqueen

Strength in numbers: the promise of forest producer organisations

Insight, 28 November 2013

Forest Governance Learning Group

Active Project

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