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Building resilient food systems

Our food systems are buckling under intensifying shocks – food price spikes, supply chain disruptions and conflict -- that simultaneously threaten food security, nutrition, livelihoods and

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Transforming food systems from the ground up

Smallholder farmers grow a third of the world’s food, rising to 80% in Africa and Asia. How best can governments and donors ensure agricultural projects most effectively reach and serve those who need

Community members generating a nutrition map (bottom) in Huay Lor village, Lao PDR. (LAO FARMERS’ ASSOCIATION)
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Adapt to Thrive: Transforming Food Systems in Africa - The Case for Investing in Agroecology

Across Africa, the dominant industrial agriculture model has failed to end hunger and is steadily eroding the ecological foundations of farming. Dependence on imported synthetic fertilisers

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Debt Fuels the Climate Crisis: How the Finance Flows

Debt is a major, but fixable, barrier to climate action. Action on debt could be one of the most impactful and achievable climate solutions available.

Debt fuels the climate crisis
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2025 Annual Report - People Power for Justice in uncertain times

It is an honour to present this report on behalf of our federation. The year 2025 was shaped by profound uncertainty and geopolitical change. The weakening of multilateral institutions, declining and

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Still Cooking With a Failed Recipe

A new report by ActionAid, Education International and the Tax and Education Alliance, supported by 19 partners, has revealed how the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) rigid, one-size-fits-all

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Build better agrifood systems - Invest in producer organisations:

Smallholder farmers are central to global food security, rural livelihoods and sustainable food systems. Estimates indicate that 70% of the world’s population depend primarily on small-scale producers

Heu Sokleap, a farmer and Chair of the Aphivat Meanchey Agricultural Cooperative, Cambodia, tending to her pigs on her home farm.
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Nairobi Charter on Transforming Education Financing

Over the past 18 months ActionAid has led a Learning Collaborative on Education Financing in Africa with civil society organisations and coalitions across East, West, North, Central and Southern

Nairobi Charter on Transforming Education Financing
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Women's Humanitarian Leadership Fund: Lessons on power, trust and impact

This report captures our effort to turn commitments on localisation and support for women’s leadership into action – a learning journey that aimed to test, adapt and innovate through trust-based

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Occupied Palestinian Territory, Humanitarian Snapshot #13

A new urgent snapshot based on reporting from 45 international and Palestinian NGOs across the occupied Palestinian territory covering 10 Oct–30 Nov 2025 — the first weeks of the ceasefire agreement