Published in October 2015, this IIED Brifing evaluates the comparative social and environmental advantages of extensive pastoral production systems. The African Union’s policy framework on pastoralism recognises the economic...

Each year, the Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility research project tracks global, national and local food prices and their effects on everyday life, and selects a special topic for focused research. Published on 3 November...

The Joint Programming Workshop for Central, East and South Africa, Addis Ababa, 13-14 March 2014, co-hosted with the Netherlands and Belgium, was a success, following the one held last January in Guatemala (covering Latin America)...

This special issue of Water Policy on Leadership in Knowledge and Capacity Development in the Water Sector was launched recently at the IWA Development Congress in Nairobi. Together, the papers in this special issue and the...

Over the past years vast tracks of agricultural lands have been taken over by foreign firms. Much of this land is located in African countries with fast increasing populations suffering hunger and under-nourishment. Such land...