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Securing the future: Managing risk and building resilience within locally controlled forest businesses
… specific unpredictabilities in: accessing finance, competing for natural resources, securing fair treatment under law, managing a group business organisation, developing human capacity, and building a …
Publication, 01 March 2016
Manganese mining in Gabon (Photo: jbdodane, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD)
… , as governments in the global South reassert control over their natural resources, while at the same time lacking the capacity to ensure mining … MMSD – workshop/meetings MMSD – presentations MMSD – assurance group MMSD – project information MMSD – draft materials … Natural resource management …
Project, 03 March 2009
A canopy above the entrance to a mine. Written on the canopy is 'Bienvenidos a Marmato" - welcome to Marmato
Mining reforms have left Colombia’s artisanal miners behind
… development and illegitimately control their relationship to land and resources. As the government heavily subsidises international mining … Natural resource management …
Insight, 15 April 2020
Yanacocha Mine, in Cajamarca, Peru. The country's Supreme Court last year ruled in favour of a farmer that a US gold miner claimed was illegally occupying land it wanted to develop (Golda Fuentes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting community voices heard in investor-state arbitration
… arbitral claims against states relating to investments in natural resource-related projects. The investments giving rise to these … being disputed can affect communities' access to land and natural resources, their human rights, or damage the environment on which these … for a multilateral investment court , and the UNCITRAL Working Group on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform  needs to consider how …
Insight, 05 March 2018
Workshop participants displayed and exchanged seeds from different parts of the world (Image: Yiching Song/Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy)
New film shows Chinese mountain communities protecting biocultural heritage
… Natural resource management …
News, 14 March 2017
A seated man gives a speech to a camera directly in front of him, next to the Bhutan national flag
CBA14 opens with LDC chair call for greater ambition on climate change
News, 21 September 2020
Combine harvesters in a wheat field
Is adaptation the missing ingredient from the new UN biodiversity action plan?
… 50 countries, the report documented unprecedented rates of decline in natural ecosystems and species populations. Since then, experts have … change mitigation, and Reduced resilience to environmental change and natural disasters. The reality, of course, is that we have already … as ‘a fascinating but dumb idea’  that would distract (and take resources away from) the priority of saving endangered species and their …
Insight, 24 February 2020
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Arguing forests: the story of FGLG Indonesia
… partners that form the international Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG). By providing an in-depth and personal insight into its … and successes experienced by FGLG Indonesia as it has evolved from a group of young, concerned foresters through to its current status as a … Natural resource management …
Publication, 01 February 2015
Dialogue participants visited ASM operations (Photo: Mkhululi Nkosilamandla Ncube)
Can ASM lead the Africa Mining Vision?
… of what the Africa Mining Vision really is. During the debrief and group session after our field trip to Nsangano gold mine in Nyarungusu … – a transparent, equitable and optimal exploitation of mineral resources to underpin broad-based sustainable growth and socio-economic … Natural resource management …
Insight, 07 December 2017
A conservation agriculture demonstration at the Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust, Zambia. Conservation agriculture can increase productivity and improve soil structure (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture
… will focus on Zambia, Ghana and Ethiopia, while working with a wider group of universities in Africa to share lessons and build capacity. … It will build on the work of the IIED-led International Working Group on Food and Forests in Africa , and complement SITAM (Supporting … Natural resource management …
Project, 10 August 2017