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"A masterpiece of the world's intangible heritage", bark cloth is processed to be used in fashion, accessories, house wares, interior design, and other forms of art (Photo: David Nkwanga)
Field visits to highlight community-based adaptation in Uganda
Insight, 25 April 2017
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IIED's best of 2019: publications
… And increasing numbers of policies and programmes aim to integrate small-scale rural producers into agricultural value chains, based on … local development around mining sites and to strengthen the rights of artisanal gold miners. This briefing , produced under IIED’s Legal tools …
Article, 23 December 2019
MMSD – regional reports
… América del Sur – Anexo 3 MMSD: Documentation of information about small and artisanal mining – Brazilian report MMSD: Projeto banco de informacoes … and mineral processing operations – Table 7.1 Research Topic 1: Small-scale mining within the SADC region: terms of reference Research Topic …
Article, 03 March 2009
Customers at a milk bar in Ndumbuini in Kabete, Nairobi. Research in Kenya has found that milk sold in this way had similar bacterial levels to those sold in formal markets (Photo: ILRI/Paul Karaimu)
What do street food, charcoal, gold, mobile phones and milk have in common?
… markets. Six million consumers in Kenya drink milk from informal small-scale milk vendors — and in 2007 the International Livestock Research … informal economy is never inefficient, unwanted, dirty or dangerous — artisanal gold mining, for example, is responsible for a third of all …
Insight, 17 December 2014
The video 'Meet Mr Forest' was presented at the 2nd Beijing Documentary Week in August 2018 (Photo: Rachel E. Berkley/IIED)
New IIED videos inform Chinese consumers about Africa's forests
… Mr Zheng is one of many Chinese investors in Africa, many of them small-scale entrepreneurs building businesses exporting African natural … included in the project. The article profiles work to support artisanal loggers associations, setting up local value-adding forest …
News, 21 August 2018
MMSD – final report
… to using minerals Chapter 12: Access to information Chapter 13: Artisanal and small-scale mining Chapter 14: Sector governance: roles, responsibilities and …
Article, 03 March 2009
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: "No more hanky panky"
… on page two of their progress report (pdf) ) clearly represented small scale miners which typically belong to the informal sector). This … that the issue of informal revenues and, in particular, those from artisanal and small scale mining, was on the agenda (albeit on the …
Insight, 11 March 2011
IIED's 2015-16 Annual Report (Image: Arc/IIED)
IIED's 2015/2016 annual report focuses on partnership
… is "now the key forum for China-Africa in the forest sector".  An  artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) dialogue,  organised with Ghanian NGO Friends of the …
News, 01 November 2016
MMSD – workshops, meetings and presentations
… agenda Strategic planing workshop participants Agenda workshop on artisanal and small-scale mining: how can the sector better contribute to sustainable …
Article, 04 March 2009