Food and agriculture policy
Poor farming communities are increasingly excluded from access to and control over the resources and technology needed to sustain their livelihoods and the local environment.
Research on policy issues enables Practical Action to generate information and knowledge, through analysis of its own work and the work of others, allowing Practical Action to demonstrate and advocate the key role that technology change has for enhancing and sustaining the livelihoods of women and men living in poverty.
Food sovereignty
Food sovereignty places the needs of the majority at the heart of the global food policy agenda and embraces not only the control of production and markets, but also the Right to Food, peoples' acc...
Read moreAgricultural biodiversity
Poor farming communities are increasingly excluded from access to and control over the resources and technology needed to sustain their livelihoods and the local environment.
Read moreMore Aid for African Agriculture
Increase aid for African farmers to end the food crisis Practical Action and other members of th...
Read moreThe global food crisis: what can be done?
The ongoing global food crisis is the result of a dysfunctional food system. This should be an easily solvable issue, but how can it be done?
Read moreHunger & Climate Change: Some Practical Answers? - 7 April 2009
In this event, hosted by Practical Action, panellists including Professor Bob Watson and Patrick Holden will discuss the new policies and technologies for agriculture that will be needed to cope wi...
Read moreHunger, food and agriculture: responding to the ongoing challenges
Practical Action’s values - justice, sustainability, diversity, democracy, and empowerment - describe the components that need to be in place to realise a just and sustainable food system.
Read moreRio+20 - food and agriculture
Rio+20 has an historical opportunity to agree on public actions that actually will eradicate hunger and poverty while also saving the environment.
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