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Food security

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Busy market scene, showing traders with their vegetables

Informal food markets offer diverse food products and crucial livelihood opportunities

News, 25 November 2019

Four young Ethiopian men standing in a field of cabbages

Africa’s evolving food systems

Archived Project

A cook serves food to a group of children

Q&A: Encouraging the availability of healthy and diverse foods for students

Article, 29 October 2019

Evelyne Flora Latabu shaking a bowl of grains.

The Ugandan diet: food voices and choices

Insight, 24 October 2019

Women traders on a market stall, with rows of different fruit and vegetables in front of them

Harnessing the potential of Zambia’s informal food sector

Insight, 17 October 2019

A woman sitting on a raised platform

Urban food insecurity and malnutrition are about more than just food

Insight, 16 October 2019

An Indonesia market trader stands at his stall while women customers look at the food on sale

Dietary indicators need overhauling, food diary study finds

Insight, 15 October 2019

A woman picks fresh greens

Beyond maize: exploring agricultural diversification in Zambia

Insight, 22 August 2019

A food vendor is surrounded by people in a busy street

The two faces of Bandung’s street food: recreation and reliance

Insight, 07 August 2019

People gather around a table at an outdoor meeting

Tackling widespread hunger in cities means listening to the urban poor

Insight, 05 August 2019

A women puts food into an outdoor oven

Keeping Bolivia’s culture alive through food

Insight, 18 June 2019

The experiences of mountain communities in Kyrgyzstan were shared at a learning exchange (Photo: Alan Zulch)

Mountain communities stress the importance of biocultural heritage for global food security

News, 15 February 2019

A small farm near the Scottish town of Crief

Understanding the role of small farms in Europe (SALSA)

Active Project

Women farmers sorting their carrot harvest in Karnal District in the Indian state of Haryana (Photo: Nirmal Sigtia, IWMI/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: Women in rural India are nature’s guardians

Article, 30 October 2018

Immaculate Yossa is regional advocacy officer for Eastern Africa at Hivos. She discussed key messages from multi-stakeholder action at the Uganda Food Lab (Photo: Food and Agriculture Organisation, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Achieving real transformation in our food system

Insight, 23 October 2018

Exercises helped the Food Change Lab group trust one another

Food, sisterhood and dreams

Insight, 16 October 2018

A soup stall in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Many of the urban poor rely on frequent food purchases, often cooked food prepared by street vendors (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)

How the urban poor define and measure food insecurity

Active Project

A conservation agriculture demonstration at the Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust, Zambia. Conservation agriculture can increase productivity and improve soil structure (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)

Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture

Active Project

Madizini in Tanzania grew from a village into an urban centre, initially because the local sugarcane plantations and factory needed workers. Now the town supports a wide array of businesses (Photo: Jytte Agergaard)

Reframing food security for an urbanising world

Insight, 10 April 2017

A stallholder measures her produce in a marketplace

Sustainable diets for all

Archived Project

Informal food vendors in Mathare, Nairobi. Understanding food consumption and how food systems work is essential to support food security (Photo: Cecilia Tacoli/IIED)

Urbanisation, rural-urban transformations and food systems

Archived Project

Politicians, farmers, and civil society and church leaders broadcast their commitments to take action to improve food systems live on KRC’s radio station, KRC 102 FM The Farmers' Voice. (Photo: Nimrod Bagonza)

Food summit secures strong commitment to drive change in Ugandan food systems

Insight, 28 April 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

Macaroons topped with crickets and mealworm chocolates prepared for participants at the food session (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

May we suggest a cricket crostini? Mealworm chocolates?

Article, 08 December 2015

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