Paolo Cravero

Paolo Cravero is a former IIED researcher (research and outreach) on consumption, urbanisation and food systems. He was at IIED from 2014-16.

Paolo Cravero's blog posts

Air balloon photograph of children while mapping Mathare informal settlement, Nairobi.

Mapping for food safety

Long read, Dec 2015

A market in Fort Portal (Photo: Sister Haiti, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Making sure Fort Portal's 'modernisation' plan feeds the poor

Blog, Dec 2015

Relocated street vendors operate in the car park below the alun-alun of the Masjid Raya Mosque in Bandung, but this basement area does not attract many customers and vendors have to breathe in car and motorcycle fumes due to the poor air circulation (Photo: Kemal Jufri/Panos Pictures)

Building trust through dialogue with street-food vendors

Blog, Nov 2015

A six-minute film recorded in the Mathare settlement, Narobi, in late April 2015 shows some of the main challenges faced by food vendors living and working inside low-income informal settlements (Image: Paolo Cravero/IIED)

Informal food vendors: urban food security's invisible experts

Blog, Jun 2015

Street food: the debate on food security must adapt to consider how consumption and urbanisation are transforming rural spaces and economies, food systems and food security (Photo: Cecilia Tacoli/IIED)

If food security is the answer, is it time to change the question?

Blog, Feb 2015