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Chinese timber business in Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
China-Africa trade and investment: benefiting Africa's rural informal economy?
… China is now Africa's largest trading partner with the value of trade increasing 20 times in the past 15 years to reach US$200 … economy. Before talking about the impacts of Chinese trade and investment, we need first to understand how messy and complex this … China-Africa trade and investment: benefiting Africa's rural informal …
Insight, 31 March 2015
Three men look out over a pond
China in the world
… Analysts often view China’s role through a false binary choice: between China “ buying into … development challenges and opportunities of China’s overseas aid, trade and investments. Specifically, the institute is working to improve the impacts of Chinese-linked activities on communities in Africa; building on research highlighting the role of Chinese actors in …
Article, 01 August 2019
Participants at the third China-Africa Forest Governance Learning Platform meeting in Beijing (Photo: Simon Lim/IIED)
China-Africa Forest Governance Learning Platform puts focus on business solutions
… The third learning event of the China-Africa Forest Governance Learning Platform  brought together more than … stakeholders to promote pro-poor and sustainable investment and trade in Africa's forests.  On the first day, participants discussed … China-Africa Forest Governance Learning Platform puts focus on business …
News, 14 February 2017
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2017 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2017: publications
… devolved climate finance model at a side event at the UNFCCC COP23 . China-Africa investment treaties: do they work? Over the past 15 years, China's …
Article, 28 December 2017
Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
IIED's best of 2015: blogs
… Cecil, but be careful what we wish for. Sustainable agriculture in China: then and now March: The environmental impacts of China's … while striving to achieve a city's unique vision of the future. China-Africa trade and investment: benefiting Africa's rural informal economy? March: …
Article, 22 December 2015
Man talking while two others take notes
IIED research and evidence in academia
… you with access. 2026 Commodities and sustainability in international trade treaties: insights from the EU-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic … Lepcha and Limbu in northeast India; and Naxi and Moso in Yunnan, China. Featuring IIED's Krystyna Swiderska . Advancing Indigenous and … climate at its centre. Written by IIED's Lorenzo Cotula . Trade with Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific: the UK’s Economic Partnership …
Article, 23 September 2020