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Food security

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Workshop participants in Mozambique discuss results from group work on how to make farming more sustainable (Photo: Lynn Boyd, ADRA Mozambique)

Five ways to make farming more sustainable

Insight, 20 May 2015

Central Malawi: Belia Sikelo farms groundnuts using 'conservation agriculture', a set of practices including no-till farming, designed improve soil structure and help resist erosion. (Photo: T. Samson/CIMMYT)

2015: the International Year of Soils

Article, 09 April 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

Dr John Ingram speaking on food security at IIED (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

IIED 'Critical Theme' seminar: Climate change and food security

Event on 12 February 2015

The rich agro-biodiversity of the Eastern Himalayas (Photo: Nawraj Gurung)

Unmissable opportunity to build food security and reduce GHGs at Paris COP

News, 12 February 2015

Smallholders threshing rice in irrigated agricultural perimeter of Sélingué dam in Mali (Photo: Moustapha Diallo/GWI West Africa)

GWI West Africa: project background

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Representatives of communities from Peru, Bhutan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea have formed an International network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (Photo: Lhab Tshering)

Indigenous mountain communities call on governments to support traditional knowledge-based adaptation

News, 18 June 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

Mountains such as the Andes, in Peru, are among the regions most affected by climate change (Photo: David Stanley via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Indigenous spiritual values guide climate change adaptation in mountain communities

News, 25 April 2014

Top: Sohel Ahmed and colleague prepare to release the balloon; bottom: Some of the photographs taken from the air (Photos: Sohel Ahmed)

Up in the air: Citizen scientists map food dangers in Nairobi

Insight, 31 March 2014

A Rwandan farmers stands in her field of maize with hills rising behind her in the background.

Feeding the World: Why we must do more than just increase yields

News, 05 July 2013

Report warns of ways climate change threatens food security of urban poor

News, 28 March 2013

A male shepherdwith a stick leads dozens of sheep winding behind him on a dusty trail

Valuing variability

Article

Agricultural development: business as usual is not an option

Insight, 05 April 2012

Mozambique: the next Atlantis?

Insight, 15 September 2011

Are small-scale farmers there to feed themselves and large-scale farmers there to feed the world? Credit: Flickr/Peter Casier

Can small-scale farmers feed the world?

Insight, 15 March 2011

Food security in 2050: how can we make it fairer and more sustainable?

Insight, 03 February 2011

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