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Peru
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Digital tools amplify the voice of women in Peruvian communities
Perú’s ollas comunes or community-led soup kitchens – a community response to COVID-19 based on solidarity, tradition and resilience that is breaking gender norms – have embraced a hybrid way of working to ensure women’s voices are heard
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Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and COVID-19
In the run up to the UN Food Systems Summit in September 2021, the International Network of Mountain Indigenous
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Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity
A recent workshop hosted by IIED and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew explored how the way Indigenous Peoples grow and consume food holds answers to the world’s broken food system
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Biocultural heritage territories: key to halting biodiversity loss
A new briefing examines the importance of biocultural heritage territories, whose communities are custodians of biodiversity
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On pilgrimage in Madre de Dios: starting a journey to sustainable artisanal mining
Pope Francis condemned threats to the Amazon's peoples and forests when he visited Peru. After the world's media has moved on, what next for those working to improve the artisanal mining sector?
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Biocultural heritage territories film now in Spanish
A visually stunning photofilm that profiles three biocultural heritage terriritories and their role in biodiversity conservation and locally determined development is now available in Spanish. Biocultural heritage territories protect indigenous and traditional land tenure and use land management to preserve fragile ecosystems and promote locally determined patterns of development
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Wanted: more inclusive, resilient, sustainable cities
Eighty per cent of Latin Americans live in urban areas. The result is a complex and challenging urban agenda that needs to be addressed through integrated and inclusive policies. An IIED and IIED- América Latina workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, looked at examples of Latin American cities that are striving to become more inclusive, resilient and sustainable, from across the region
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Recognising the risks – what do people in Lima think about climate change?
While heads of state, ministers and negotiators met in Lima, Peru, to try to negotiate a global deal at the UN climate talks, local people have been developing their own adaptation strategy – and seem to find it equally difficult to face up to the scale of the problem
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The long and winding road to Paris
As the dust settles after the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP20), IIED sifts through the events in Lima
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Negotiating a fair future at COP20
On Monday 1 December, the UN Climate Change Conference 2014 kicks off in Lima. Peruvian IIED board member Francisco Sagasti discusses his hopes for a successful conference
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Return of potatoes from CIP to Andean farmers proves critical for climate adaptation
Peru's farmers are able to access a greater diversity of potato varieties for climate adaptation, thanks to the continued work of a ground-breaking agreement between CIP, ANDES and the Association of the Potato Park communities
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New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories
IIED has released a new photofilm profiling indigenous biocultural heritage territories and the role they play in development, conservation and adaptation
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Indigenous spiritual values guide climate change adaptation in mountain communities
Cultural and spiritual values of indigenous peoples and climate change will be the focus of an international event in the Potato Park, Cusco, Peru
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Voices and flavours of the earth: Food sovereignty in the Andes
Voices and flavours of the earth: Visualising food sovereignty in the Andes is a multimedia publication that uses video, audio, images and text to describe how indigenous communities are drawing on their knowledge and cosmovisions to rethink the priorities and governance of food and agricultural research in the Andean Altiplano of Bolivia and Peru.
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Learning to value Mother Earth
Making informed choices about eating foods that have less of an environmental impact is increasingly important. We can all learn lessons from local communities living in the Andes
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Report scopes sustainability of China-Latin America relations
A study examining Chinese trade and investment in mining, agriculture and forestry in Chile, Brazil and Peru says sustainability is increasingly on the agenda.
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World Food Day: how do you keep co-operatives competitive?
The Food and Agriculture Organization's 2012 World Food Day focuses on co-operatives.This time around co-operatives need to be what the small-scale farmers actually want. Sometimes that means something quite informal.
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Making the Nagoya Protocol work at the community level
Two safeguards for communities' rights to resources can help implement the Nagoya Protocol.
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Small-scale producers in the globalised market
The Latin American Learning Network members of the Knowledge Programme ‘Small producer agency in the globalised market’ convened in Lima from 12 to 16 September. They organised and participated in a series of meetings and events in conjunction with various prestigious organisations. The highlight of the programme was the International Forum ‘Small-scale producers: Actors in Globalised Markets and Food Security?’ on 14 September, organised by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
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Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction
IIED worked to understand how policy, economics and governance affect community-based initiatives, and how to better engage with governance in order to scale-up community initiatives and reduce poverty
