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Aurelio Fuastino lives near a primary forest in Mozambique. He sees the forest as an important source of many products including medicinal plants. He and other villages have no control over loggers who have been given licenses in the forest (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
IIED seminar on locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples
… for development by industries such as logging, agribusiness and mining.   FPP was set up in 1990 to support indigenous forest peoples in …
Event, 07 July 2015
A group of men in felt hats and woollen capes
“Public officers are also human beings”: trust and environmental governance
… areas, where most forms of agriculture and cattle were forbidden, and mining was totally prohibited – even though most páramos have been …
Insight, 08 July 2020
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Natural resources, development models and sustainable development
Publication, 01 January 2003
A women farmer tends crops on a dried river pond
Transparent climate reporting in Malawi: what’s needed, what’s next?
Insight, 03 October 2019
Men and women sitting in chairs.
What happens when the landgrabbers leave? An account from Kilwa, Tanzania
… for food production, tourism, biofuels, agro-commodities, logging and mining coincided with the Africa Rising narrative of economic growth, …
Insight, 14 December 2020
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Facing Facing the Future Future THE REPORT OF THE MMSD AUSTRALIA PROJECT M A Y 2002
… AUSTRALIA PROJECT M A Y 2002 TD MELBOURNE TES PTY L & ASSOCIA The Mining Minerals and Sustainable Development Australia project was …
Publication, 01 May 2002
Quechua woman
Here's why Indigenous economics is the key to saving nature
… IPLCs “are facing growing resource extraction, commodity production, mining and transport and energy infrastructure”. Negative impacts from …
Insight, 12 April 2021
Marisa Carmargo presents approaches to equity in forest governance: Lessons for safeguard development at an event at COP20 in Lima (Photo: Donal Yeang via Flickr)
Why the private sector must be included in efforts to curb deforestation
… land. In countries like Ghana, it also competes with activities like mining, forestry, and subsistence agriculture. So zero deforestation has … and where. Better coordination, including with other sectors, such as mining and the forest sector could increase the benefits. Institutions …
Insight, 05 December 2014
Richard Sandbrook Memorial Lecture
… overfishing has wiped several species of fish out of the market; and mining concessions are destroying major forests such as the Amazon. … working with business, and famously forged links with pulp and paper, mining and water industries to improve their social and environmental …
News, 23 March 2011
Hội An, Vietnam: in many towns in the developing world, street vendors constitute a significant share of total employment in the informal economy (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green economy must work for street vendors as well as Wall Street
… million jobs worldwide.  The event will use examples from artisanal mining, food and agriculture, forestry, and urban food vending and waste …
News, 24 February 2016