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Land Registration in Eastern and Western Regions, Ghana
… hand, deeds registration is commonly used by agribusiness, and by mining and timber companies acquiring interests in land. In other words, …
Publication, 01 December 2005
A man in a face mask talking to a group of people
Facing a COVID-19 future: listening and learning to inform the ‘new normal’
… less power across many sectors – food, forests, farming, fishing and mining – to foster dialogue and cooperation. With that there may be a …
Insight, 28 May 2020
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Corporate Social Responsibility: From Words to Action Can Bankers Provoke the "Action"?
… Provoke the "Action"? Gerard Holden Managing Director Global Head of Mining & Metals Barclays Capital The Key Issues l Do Voluntary … in MMSD through the Assurance Group Voluntary Initiatives and Mining Finance l Historically these Initiatives have not worked well l … Strict Due Diligence (Effective Policing) Social Responsibility and Mining Finance l Environmentally Responsible Production l Good …
Publication, 01 January 1970
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Community protocols can bring real benefits to communities and combat biodiversity loss
… to negotiate more effectively in a variety of contexts, such as with mining or forestry companies. They typically set out: the communities’ … community protocol in northern Ghana has helped to postpone a mining operation, which threatened the community’s sacred sites and …
Insight, 15 March 2012
Negotiators on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership discuss the treaty in Brussels in May 2015 (Photo: European Parliament, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Investment treaties and citizens' power: lessons from experience
… submitting evidence to an investor-state arbitration related to a mining project . This shows how local to global civil society alliances … by an alliance including grassroots groups based in the affected mining areas. National civil society turned local issues into national …
Insight, 07 September 2015
A group of women writing notes on a poster.
Can promotion groups help strengthen women’s access and control over land?
… including vegetable farming, poultry and cattle farming, and salt mining. We spoke to women from across Senegal to learn more about …
Insight, 24 November 2020
A basket full of coal taken illegally from an open-cast mine near the village of Bokapahari, India where a community of coal scavengers live and work © G. M. B. Akash / Panos Pictures
How to use law to make foreign investment work for sustainable development
… focuses on investments in agriculture and the extractive industries – mining, oil and gas. These sectors attract much of the foreign …
News, 22 November 2013
Women pulling fishing nets through shallow water
Steering gender to the centre of the blue economy
… important sectors, such as fisheries, maritime shipping, deep-sea mining, renewable energy and tourism, the potential return on investment …
Insight, 06 June 2019
Deforestation in Kalimantan, Indonesia, which has been pledged US$1 billion pledge of REDD+ finance from Norway (Photo: Josh Estey/Aus Aid, via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
What's next for REDD+?
… biomass energy, and integrated land use planning for more sustainable mining and infrastructure development. The solution for the current … even the large scale investors in key commodities and the energy and mining sectors. This can reduce the efficiency and effectiveness of …
Insight, 29 April 2014
A group of people sit on the floor in a circle. A woman on her feet is reading from a paper. Some other people are no their feet and holding hands in the air.
Legal empowerment as action research
… Bamako on providing legal literacy support in villages around large mining concessions. Activities mobilised not only law lecturers but …
Insight, 11 January 2022