Items tagged:
Food year 2021
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Food Systems Summit: implications for global food governance
Last week's Food Systems Summit raised questions about global governance models in a policy area fundamental to everyone’s lives. Lorenzo Cotula argues that, without clear decision-making rules and effective structures to manage power differentials, bringing diverse actors together produces ‘capture’ rather than inclusion
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Reconciling food production and forest conservation: priorities for the UN Food Systems Summit
In the latest blog in our ‘food year’ series, guest blogger Hambulo Ngoma discusses the potential policy collisions between producing food to feed growing populations and conserving our forests
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Indigenous food systems prove highly resilient during COVID-19
Indigenous Peoples’ local agroecological food systems bring valuable lessons of resilience for policymakers heading to next month’s UN Food Systems Summit
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Food year: exploring the policies and practices to transform our food systems
This series of blogs, curated by experts in IIED's Natural Resources research group, contributed to the discussions about the policy and practice of transforming the world’s food systems around the 2021 Food Systems Summit.
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African social movements call on UN food summit to give people back control
In the second blog in our ‘food year’ series, guest blogger Million Belay explains why now is the time to demand a better food system that works for small-scale food producers in Africa – who account for most of the world’s food insecure
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UN Food Systems Summit: it’s time to listen to civil society’s concerns
Guest blogger Molly Anderson kicks off a new blog series leading up to the UN’s first ever Food Systems Summit. Here, Anderson sets out practical ways for the summit’s convenors to regroup after getting off to a rocky start
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IIED’s 'food year' blog series explores policies and practice to transform our food systems
In the lead up to the first ever global summit on food, IIED launches a new series of blogs to contribute to the debate about food systems transformation
