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IIED/Hivos knowledge programme

53 entries

Woman adding stickers to a poster on the wall

The inconvenient truth about ‘capacity’ strengthening in global development

Insight, 08 December 2020

People eating at the market

Citizen-led research serves up answers on what Bolivian food vendors want

Insight, 07 May 2020

People sit around a desk and talk into microphones

What makes a sustainable diet? And who decides? Make Change Happen podcast episode 5

Article, 05 May 2020

A young person

The champions helping communities make better food choices

Insight, 08 January 2020

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

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 women puts food into an outdoor oven

Keeping Bolivia’s culture alive through food

Insight, 18 June 2019

A market stall. According to recent studies, 75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species (Photo: Hivos)

Cooking for our future

Insight, 20 February 2019

Uganda food lab participants add their names to a declaration that came out of the lab discussions (Photo: Nimrod Bagonza)

Food Change Labs tackle complex issues with the whole system in the room

Insight, 30 January 2019

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

Plates of traditional Kabarole food

Creating knowledge and supporting action: citizen-generated evidence from food diaries in Uganda

Insight, 14 September 2018

A local blackout in Dar Es Salaam. Power outages in Tanzania's capital are often caused by old cables and transformers (Photo: jay grandin, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Improving Tanzania’s power quality: can data help?

Insight, 29 June 2018

Many crops today are grown in monocultures like this soybean field (Photo: via Pixabay)

We need to safeguard biodiversity and promote diverse diets

Insight, 22 May 2018

The sun beats down on Dongo village, Tanzania. Children walk with cattle while women carry water buckets (Photo: Chih-Jung Lee)

Shining a light on energy consumers in rural Tanzania

Insight, 12 March 2018

A young woman in a greenhouse (Photo: Tamara Kaunda)

Attracting Zambia's youth to agriculture: it's about time

Insight, 29 January 2018

A huge selection of photos are displayed in a Peru supermarket (Photo: Teresa Stanton, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Nourishing diversity in our food systems

Insight, 10 October 2017

Esilalei, Tanzania: Teresia Olotai uses a refrigerator plugged into a solar powered micro-grid. Delivering energy access in rural Tanzania could help transform local economies (Photo: Morgana Wingard, USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

How energy can generate growth in Tanzania's rural economy

Insight, 21 September 2017

A Zambian farmer in his maize field. The overdependence on maize is having a negative impact on diets in Zambia (Photo: Wesley Wakunuma)

Promoting diversity on the farm – and the plate

Insight, 05 June 2017

The fall army worm, a breed of earthworm currently devastating Maize crops in southern Africa (Photo: Wesley Wakunuma)

Fall army worm maize attack: a case for diversity from farm to fork

Insight, 08 February 2017

Sixty-two-year-old Elizabeth Mukwimba has a solar-powered lighting system. She no longer has to buy expensive kerosene and has been able to use the savings to re-roof her house (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development)

Electricity supplies in Tanzania: putting people first

Insight, 13 December 2016

The fruit market is dominated by a small number of varieties that can withstand long distance shipping and meet supermarket demands for uniformity (Photo: Dirk Loop, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Why food diversity must be on the menu

Insight, 14 October 2016

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