Food and agriculture

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Three women sit on the floor for a meeting

Responding to COVID-19 in a high-density low-income district in Mumbai

Insight, 13 May 2020

An elderly woman in a field holds crops in the air with both hands

Indigenous food systems, biocultural heritage and agricultural resilience

Active Project

A row of women sitting with baskets of freshly picked tea leaves

We need more than business as usual, to leave no one behind

Insight, 10 January 2020

Women work in an Agarbatti (incense stick) factory (Photo: Urban Health Resource Centre)

Unsmart, unsafe cities for informal workers: effective policy change will need better data

Insight, 05 April 2019

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

Home workers making bouquets (Photo: Siddharth Agarwal/UHRC)

Addressing risks facing informal workers

Archived Project

Dharavi slum, Mumbai, India (Photo: Akshay Mahajan, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Data that supports local development

Insight, 22 September 2016

The Stone Village Seed Park lies in the Himalayan foothills of Yunnan, Southwest China. It is the homeland of the ethnic minority Naxi people.

Biocultural heritage territories film now in Spanish

News, 30 August 2016

A partially obstructed drain in Gangtok city, Sikkim (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)

Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty

Insight, 21 July 2016

Villagers dig out a silted up water tank, paid for by India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Photo: Mackay Savage, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)

Finding solutions for less poverty and better ecosystems

Insight, 15 December 2015

Women harvesting brinjal near the Indian city of Gorakhpur. Peri-urban agriculture helps to ensure local food supplies, especially of fruit and vegetables (Photo: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group)

Farming on the city's periphery to enhance resilience

Insight, 09 June 2015

Ongoing monitoring of communal toilets has helped to improve design: here, smaller toilets for children are included in adult toilet blocks. Previously children's facilities were in separate buildings and were frequently left uncleaned (Photo: SPARC)

How India's slum and pavement dwellers made sanitation affordable

Insight, 05 April 2015

Images of indigenous biocultural heritage territories are profiled in a new photofilm (Photo: IIED)

New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories

News, 11 November 2014

Our new interactive visualisation plots countries’ incomes per capita against their levels of urbanisation

Let's see what the BRICS teach us about urbanisation and economic growth

Insight, 16 September 2014

Drying medicinal plants, the knowledge of which is passed down through generations. In South Asia alone, there are more than 8,000 plant species with known medicinal value (Photo: Bioversity International/B. Sthapit)

Sustaining local food systems and agricultural biodiversity

Archived Project

Polluted air coming out of the smoke stacks of a factory in Shanghai, China.

The least developed countries, equity, and a brave new world

Insight, 02 July 2013

A man walks with his roaming goats.

Current policy narratives limit climate resilience in world’s dry regions

News, 19 April 2013

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

Valuing variability

Article

Street scene of small shops and a rickshaw in a city in South India.

BRICS urbanisation provides lessons for economic growth and social equity

News, 05 December 2012

A man carries buckets filled with water from a water tanker in Retiro, a shanty town in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Basic service provision shouldn’t just be a money maker

Insight, 08 October 2012

A Raika man leading his sheep and goats to graze in the contested Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary.

How communities are protecting their biocultural resources with community protocols

Insight, 02 October 2012

A man leads a herd of camels with the sun setting behind them.

What’s in a narrative? In policy, everything or nothing

Insight, 28 September 2012

Supporting smallholders: markets, rights, or sovereignty?

Article, 09 March 2011

Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction

Archived Project

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