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Woman holding a shovel to the ground in a cropped field.
IIED's best of 2021: blogs
Article, 23 December 2021
Fenced working site in a field. There are workers and cars parked and a mineral exploratoion drilling rig
Mineral exploration goes unchecked as demand escalates
… Abbi Buxton …
Insight, 16 February 2022
A smiling woman from Kenya sits beside her sewing machine.
Linking Worlds: linking ‘small-scale’ producers into large and formal markets
… models from one context to another. For more information contact: Abbi Buxton Read Abbi Buxton ’s blog introducing the Linking Worlds research series Read …
Article, 15 January 2013
The Collahuasi copper mine in northern Chile is a zero-discharge operation, with much of its water being recycled (Photo: Pablo Necochea, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mining: Big progress but new challenges as sector searches for sustainability
… other stakeholders to improve the sector’s performance. Researcher Abbi Buxton reviewed progress the mining sector has made over the past ten … on 16-17 June. "The 2002 MMSD report was a game-changer," says Buxton. "For the first time, mining executives committed to act to …
News, 06 June 2012
A smallholder farmer stands by a bunch of sunflowers in Thika, Kenya.
How markets can bloom for Africa's smallholder farmers
… Abbi Buxton …
Insight, 06 September 2012
Small-scale miners dig soil mining for tin in Rwanda.
The mining sector searches for sustainability
… Abbi Buxton …
Insight, 13 June 2012
Fairtrade and formalisation for small-scale miners
… Abbi Buxton …
Insight, 18 February 2011
Fairtrade – the gold standard?
… Abbi Buxton …
Insight, 11 August 2010
A farmer tending his sunflowers in Kenya. Credit: Abbi Buxton
A day in the life of a commercial consultant
… of contacts and links with other businesses. Here, William Van Bragt blogs about a day in his life. 6.30 AM It’s still dark and the alarm …
Insight, 14 February 2012
A group of miners who are working the Kawa Ijen volcano in Java, Indonesia. The miners carry sulfur down the volcano and to the processing centre where the sulfur is weighed and the miner is paid (Photo: Adam Cohn, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Time to tell a new story about artisanal and small-scale mining: time for a new "indaba"
… consultation highlighted ASM as the next challenge – as explored in Abbi Buxton's blog . We now want to put our increasingly rich dialogue …
Insight, 11 February 2015