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Centre for Future Natures
A networking and research initiative that aims to share and amplify stories and knowledge from the spaces, movements and struggles for...
Business and Development Centre
The Business and Development Centre (BDC) brings together thinking from business, economics, political science and development studies to tackle critical questions on the role of business in development, focusing initially on agriculture, food and nutrition, the green economy and public health.
Rural Futures
Through our research, policy engagement, teaching and training, we support the emergence of development pathways that deliver both...
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What happened to the global land grab?Resource Politics and Environmental Change
Climate disruption, environmental change and resource scarcity have become the subject of growing policy attention, academic debate and...
Valuing Agroecological Farmers: findings from participatory research on alternative economic approaches to support agroecology in the UK
Published by: IDS
This paper looks at the potential usefulness of triple bottom line accounting, and also explores other approaches, in financial accounting, for ecological and social outcomes and the effects of different farming methods. It then provides details of the presentations given by three witnesses and a summary of the outcomes of the farmer panel deliberation.
Valuing Agroecological Farmers: What Can We Learn From Alternative Economic Approaches to Ensure the Contribution of Agroecological Farmers is Valued Appropriately? Findings From Participatory Research
Published by: IDS
This paper looks at the potential usefulness of triple bottom line accounting, and also explores other approaches, in financial accounting, for ecological and social outcomes and the effects of different farming methods. It then provides details of the presentations given by three witnesses and a summary of the outcomes of the farmer panel deliberation.
Why Access to Land is Vital for Sustainable, Healthy and Fair Food Systems: Strategies for Increasing Access to Land for Agroecological Farming
Published by: IDS
In partnership between the Institute of Development Studies and the Land Workers’ Alliance, research has been undertaken to identify strategies for increasing access to land for agroecological production, in order to contribute to a transition towards sustainable – or even regenerative – food systems in the UK. This briefing summarises these strategies.
Pathways towards Agroecological Food Systems: Small-scale Farmers at the Centre of the Transitions
Now more than ever, evidence overwhelmingly concludes that our food systems are not currently working to nourish our populations, ecosystems, economies, or social connections. Agroecological approaches have been shown as having potential to address many of these problems in the mainstream food system, particularly when combined with concepts of food sovereignty, which localise control, and place