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Women carrying emergency shelter kits
The UK’s backward step on global development
Insight, 17 June 2020
Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… South, read Investment disputes from below: whose rights matter? Mining, environment and livelihoods in Colombia . International … have provided new openings for activities such as deep seabed mining and multinationals have identified new opportunities in … programme. In many parts of the world, investments in agriculture, mining, hydropower, petroleum and other infrastructure are compounding …
Article, 23 December 2020
In Tanzania, former artisanal mining licensees Mwanahamisi Mzalendo and Mwanamkasi Rasi are among entreprenurial women who have pooled their resources to create a quarrying business. They control the day-to-day running of the quarry, including supervising labourers, dealing with the local authorities, and taking care of the site's environmental footprint (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)
Q&A: Women are driving the change we need
Article, 08 March 2018
The timber depot of Green Timber, a Chinese-owned timber concession that are licensed to operate in Nampula and Zambezia provinces, Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
China-Africa Forest Governance project
… woodland areas, some directly engage in logging and others, such as mining, infrastructure and agribusiness, affect forests and rural … in the forests in the four African countries – focusing on forestry, mining, agriculture and infrastructure. We are analysing relevant laws …
Project, 22 September 2014
A deep-sea fishing trawler
Helping the LDCs negotiate the high seas
… driven by technological advances such as deep-sea fishing, seabed mining and the exploitation of marine genetic resources by …
Project, 17 May 2018
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PLA65: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent
… genetic resources and traditional knowledge; confronting threats from mining and protected areas; and improving forestry partnerships. It also …
Publication, 01 June 2012
A smiling woman from Kenya sits beside her sewing machine.
Linking Worlds: linking ‘small-scale’ producers into large and formal markets
… payment for environmental services, agriculture and small scale mining, highlights several shared lessons: Commonly used business model …
Article, 15 January 2013
Views from Ilo, Perú
The often forgotten role of small and intermediate urban centres
… Many have importance as service centres for agriculture, fishing or mining. Many are railways and/or road transport hubs; some are river or …
Insight, 03 February 2021
The Roșia Poieni copper mine in Romania, one of the largest copper reserves in Europe (Photo: Cristian Bortes via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Investor-state arbitration: Lessons from civil society advocacy
… arbitration can have serious financial implications. Investments in mining, petroleum and agriculture have featured prominently in … a recent submission with which he was involved, concerning a mining project in El Salvador, when he felt that the process of … the submission was instrumental to promoting national debate on mining in the country. Systemic change: need for 'Southern' civil …
Insight, 19 May 2014
Many inhabitants of the city of La Paz in Bolivia live in extreme poverty. A persistent myth is that urban poverty is driven by large numbers of poor migrants (Photo: Lemurian Grove, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Debunking the myths about migration and climate change
Insight, 16 November 2011