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The 36-page print version and online Annual Report highlight IIED's wide range of work to ensure global fairness (Image: IIED/We Are Tangerine)
IIED's 2014/15 annual report: shaping a fairer future
… IIED's partners around the world, from the Alliance for Responsible Mining in Colombia to the Kenya Forestry Research Institute. The Annual …
News, 15 October 2015
A man in Uganda stands by a digger sitting next to a dirt road.
US Supreme Court dims a light in corporate accountability
… claims to land and resources squeezed by concessions for petroleum, mining, forestry or agricultural developments. Legal recourse as a … ruling that affirmed US jurisdiction in a lawsuit against a UK-based mining company be reconsidered . The lawsuit was brought against the …
Insight, 01 May 2013
Woman holding a shovel to the ground in a cropped field.
IIED's best of 2021: blogs
… extensive use of fire for outdoor cooking are most likely at fault. 9 Mining cobalt better  September : While the post-COVID-19 world looks …
Article, 23 December 2021
Protection for high seas is crucial to safeguarding vulnerable coastal communities – new research
… including from plastic contamination and shipping, overfishing, mining and geoengineering experiments. The research shows how coastal …
News, 11 March 2019
Extractive industry workers are pictured on a beach; a new report recommends that transparency initiatives need to be more inclusive and relevant to local needs for communities most affected by oil, gas or mining projects (Photo: iStockphoto.com/Getty Images)
Transparency: Giving local communities a window on the extractive industries
… to introduce new transparency laws that would require oil, gas, and mining companies to disclose the payments they make to governments at … Publish What You Pay , the Revenue Watch Institute , the Africa Mining Vision , and UN human rights and anti-corruption conventions, …
Insight, 28 May 2014
Man harvests sorghum seeds.
LDCs and the Paris Agreement: getting to grips with tougher climate reporting
Insight, 12 August 2020
Cover for 9008IIED.pdf
Share Contracts in the Oil Palm and Citrus Belt of Ghana
… southern Ghana. Share contracts are common, having stemmed from gold mining, fishing and timber into plantation crops, such as cocoa, oil …
Publication, 01 January 2001
Cover for G00131.pdf
Land in Africa: Market Asset, or Secure Livelihood? Church House, Westminster, London November 8-9 2004 The Significance of Secure Access to Land for the Livelihoods and Food Security of Africa's Farmers and the Urban Poor
… for majority of Africa's population. Subsistence farming, small-scale mining, pastoralism, reliance on timber and non-timber forest products …
Publication, 01 August 2004
The front of a cinema, with posters advertising the film Avatar.
Was 'Avatar' good for Indigenous People?
… successfully) linked the plight of the Dongria Kondh , opposing the mining company Vedanta, to that of the Na’vi in their struggle to save … the claims of groups which mobilise in order to oppose large-scale mining or hydroelectric dams. In many cases, such projects fail to bring …
Insight, 04 November 2010
A man stands as he speaks to a seated group of people surrounding him
How to get the most out of dialogue
… in driving community and policy changes: Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) dialogues Community-based Adaptation (CBA) conferences …
Insight, 03 June 2020