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Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work to promote sustainable, productive and resilient food systems, including within the blue economy, and to support smallholder farmers and farmer-led innovation. IIED also supports agrobiodiversity that helps conservation and new business models that centre social justice in supply chains.

In-depth reading

Resilience and diversity in food systems

A programme of work on how IIED is building greater local control, resilience and diversity into agricultural and food systems

How business and investment pioneers are transforming forest and food supply chains

A series of case studies demonstrating ‘business unusual’ – alternative economic models that challenge existing power dynamics

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People queuing up in front of government ration centre to get food grain

Food security to crumble in face of climate change

Press release, 23 March 2026

A fruit vendor stands behind a wooden cart at a brightly lit night market, with shoppers gathered around

Pathways for global food security in a warming climate

Article, 23 March 2026

An aerial view of a river that has flooded the surrounding area, showing fields and houses partly submerged by water.

Is any country truly food-secure in the climate change era?

News, 23 March 2026

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Food security in a warming world: who is at risk, why and what comes next?

Publication, 23 March 2026

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Can agroecology-based food system transitions work in humanitarian crises?

Publication, 17 March 2026

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Easing and de-risking the transition to agroecology for self-reliance and resilience in humanitarian contexts

Publication, 20 April 2026

Community member in Indonesia casting a net over water from a boat, to catch fish.

UN Food Systems Summit: reasons for hope but more work to do

Insight, 07 August 2025

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Beyond just buying: investing in equitable value chain partnerships with smallholders

Publication, 21 August 2025

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Establishing a biocultural heritage territory to protect Kenya’s Kaya forests: third annual project workshop

Publication, 18 October 2024

Baobab fruit on the tree

Aduna: opening new opportunities for smallholder producers in Africa

Article, 31 May 2024

Two men and two women stand outsite the credit union building.

A top-level producers’ union (KANBAOCU) and its fast-growing Jwa Ngwaane Community Cooperative Credit Union

Article, 31 May 2024

A woman stands behind a market stall of fresh vegetables, smiling proudly.

Investing in biodiverse agriculture in Ecuador’s highlands: UNORCAC and the Santa Anita cooperative

Article, 31 May 2024

Two men surveying a hilly landscape.

Synchronicity Earth: redesigning grant-making for locally-led conservation actions

Article, 31 May 2024

Cocoa beans inside pods

Tony’s Chocolonely: a holistic approach to sustainable chocolate

Article, 31 May 2024

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Root Capital: partnering with small and growing agribusinesses to address social and environmental challenges

Article, 31 May 2024

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Business unusual: how business and investment pioneers are transforming forest and food supply chains

Publication, 23 April 2024

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What about seafood? The role of seafood in UK food systems transformation

Publication, 07 March 2024

Woman walking through corn field.

Leaders sign food sustainability declaration at COP28

Press release, 01 December 2023

A combine harvester working in a field.

Carbon-intensive ultra-processed ingredients subsidised by nearly $43 billion a year

Press release, 28 November 2023

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Philanthropy’s role in sustaining fisheries for people and nature

Publication, 21 November 2023

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Sustainable food systems multi-stakeholder mechanisms: contributions to the environmental agenda

Publication, 13 September 2023

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Food systems governance and the environmental agenda

Publication, 13 September 2023

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Tackling environmental challenges through food systems governance

Publication, 13 September 2023

Vegetables street vendors sitting on the floor.

Transformative food systems governance and the environmental agenda: lessons from the national and city level

Event on 13 September 2023

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