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Early morning in Dogo, West Java, Indonesia: getting low-cost furniture ready for selling on the street corner (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Formalising the informal
… From food sellers in Lima to waste pickers in Mumbai, and from artisanal miners in Ghana to furniture makers in Indonesia, hundreds of … the process. Furniture maker Mohammad Amin Sulthon told us how 8,000 small-scale furniture makers in Jepara, Indonesia went through the …
Insight, 30 March 2016
Three men look out over a pond
China in the world
… of Chinese actors in supply chains in different commodities, and on artisanal and small-scale mining and fisheries in Africa; and identifying leverage points …
Article, 01 August 2019
A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber
China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?
… Chinese companies were already increasingly influencing the pace and scale at which Africa’s trees and forests make way for agro-industries, … this, an overwhelming majority of ‘Chinese companies’ in Africa are small and micro businesses that are locally incorporated rather than the … work in the Democratic Republic of Congo supporting organisations of artisanal loggers to make better deals with Chinese companies , in …
Insight, 19 June 2019
A woman miner in Tanzania, who features in a film on stories of change on artisanal and small-scale mining (Image: IIED)
Best of 2017: videos
… Showing the people who are creating change: artisanal mining Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is known for poor practices – but that is not the …
Article, 12 January 2018
Our annual report highlights pathways to change (Photo: Olivier Girard/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED Annual Report 2017/18
… environmental justice. During 2018 we held a series of dialogues for artisanal and small-scale mining. Our  action dialogues in Ghana, Madagascar and Tanzania …
Page, 24 October 2018
MMSD – draft materials
… to using minerals Chapter 12: Access to information Chapter 13: Artisanal and small-scale mining Chapter 14: Roles, responsibilities and instruments for …
Article, 04 March 2009
The publicity for our Twitter chat on 27 March 2017 (Image: Nick Turner/IIED)
Creating a conversation online
… focused on sharing views and resources among the varied and global artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) community. IIED's dialogue programme for artisanal …
Insight, 20 April 2017
A man stands as he speaks to a seated group of people surrounding him
How to get the most out of dialogue
… have been instrumental in driving community and policy changes: Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) dialogues Community-based Adaptation (CBA) …
Insight, 03 June 2020
Members of the Zimbabwe Homeless People's Federation learn techniques for building houses on land that is affected by climate-related hazards, including waterlogging. Picture: David Dodman.
12 Christmas crackers from IIED
… his blog post for The Guardian . 8. Responding to the challenge of artisanal and small-scale mining Small-scale and artisanal mining — a sector that …
Article, 27 December 2013
Women selling fish in Nyakrom, Central Ghana. The food economy is the largest informal sector in West Africa (Photo: aripeskoe2, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green grows the informal economy
… and researchers to debate this issue. Speakers laid bare the size and scale of the challenge as participants considered how best to integrate … is far bigger than the formal economy and equally diverse, including small-scale farmers, forest workers, artisanal miners, furniture makers, waste pickers and street vendors, …
Insight, 10 March 2016