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Breaking Gender Norms: Lessons from the Women’s Food Lab in La Paz, Bolivia
The deployment of Hivos' Food Lab methodology in a women-only setting in La Paz, Bolivia, allowed stakeholders to hear from and truly involve female participants, who often lack a voice.
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Involve marginalized groups to make food systems more climate-resilient
Climate change is already hitting low-income and marginalized groups the hardest. If we want to realize a just and rights-based transition to climate-resilient and inclusive societies, we need to make sure of one important thing. That all those in today’s food system – especially those hit hardest – are involved in re-shaping our future food system.
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Three pillars for food system change: inclusivity, joint vision and long-term commitment
Changing the food system, with its many moving parts and multitude of actors, requires bringing together diverse views in a meaningful and productive way. A new paper identifies three key ingredients multi-actor initiatives need to drive change in the food system.
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Sustainable Food Stories
Hivos and IIED are proud to collaborate with Climate Tracker on a Sustainable Food Media Fellowship. Together, we have launched a series of multilingual, online, open competitions to seek out 20 great storytellers from across the five countries: Bolivia, Indonesia, Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia.
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Common cause with people in the food systems of the majority
Bill Vorley discusses why we need a much deeper understanding of and partnership with people in the food systems that feed and provide livelihoods for low-income women and men.
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Uganda’s hungry food vendors: counting the cost of COVID-19
Interviews as part of a new study show how lockdown restrictions are leaving Uganda’s food vendors hungry and vulnerable.
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Protecting indigenous foods, preserving biodiversity – the solutions are in nature
On this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity, Natalie Lartey and Immaculate Yossa Daisy discuss how advocacy to protect Uganda’s indigenous food is simultaneously preserving the nation’s biodiversity.
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Citizen-led research serves up answers on what Bolivian food vendors want
Jorge Vladimir Garcia, a research consultant with SD4All partner MIGA, describes the outcomes and challenges of research, led by traditional food vendors themselves, on what might help keep market eateries in La Paz popular in the face of rising competition.
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What makes a sustainable diet? And who decides? Make Change Happen podcast episode 5
The fifth episode of IIED's ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast explores the SD4All programme's citizen-led approach, featuring contributions from partners working in Bolivia, Kenya and Zambia.
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COVID-19: a wake-up call to rebuild our global food system
Instead of treating the COVID-19 outbreak as a stand-alone crisis, we should acknowledge that it is a symptom of something larger – namely, the disruption and destruction of natural ecosystems and biodiversity. Our globalized food system is a strong driver of this destruction.