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Sandbags in a doorway to prevent flooding
Adapting to climate change in Europe: building a systemic and urgent vision
Insight, 15 May 2019
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Homegarden Systems: Agricultural characteristics and challenges
… inputs are unavailable, land use intensification may lead to soil mining and low production levels. Only two systems of traditional, low …
Publication, 01 January 1993
A person's baby finger is covered in ink so they can vote during the 2013 Presidential elections.
Mali election: A Presidential run off
… (Adéma-PASJ) party, Dramane Dembélé, trails in third place. A former mining official, Dembélé was Mali's Director-General of Geology and …
Insight, 06 August 2013
Gatekeeper series: Local organization Profiles
… and download GK137b: The Evolution of Casa Pueblo, Puerto Rico: From Mining Opposition to Community Revolution Alexis Massol-González, Avril … to the Puerto Rican government’s plan for large-scale open-pit mining by international corporations in the central region. Its aims … It also promotes sustainable forestry and helped change national mining and forestry policy. Casa Pueblo’s philosophy is based on a …
Article, 01 April 2010
Seaweed farmers in Indonesia (Photo: Hiswaty Hafid/USAid, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Focusing the blue economy future on small-scale fisheries
… these days, ranging from discussions about the impact of large-scale mining companies, to the role of specialist marine security fleets, to …
Insight, 18 February 2019
Tanzania: Moving beyond ‘land grab’ rhetoric to finding solutions
… their stakes in the land remain uncertain. Whether its agriculture, mining or tourism, land-based investments in Tanzania are not working. …
Insight, 05 April 2012
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ELLA - sharing Evidence and Lessons from Latin America
… is planning a socio-economic and environmental impacts study of mining activities in Ghana, specifically, small-scale mining. This whole idea stemmed from the information, knowledge and …
Insight, 12 November 2012
IIED's 2015-16 Annual Report (Image: Arc/IIED)
IIED's 2015/2016 annual report focuses on partnership
… China-Africa in the forest sector".  An  artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) dialogue,  organised with Ghanian NGO Friends of the Nation …
News, 01 November 2016
Game reveals complex links between poverty and threats to apes
… but at such low levels that this is not a major threat – logging and mining activities that destroy ape habitat were bigger concerns. The ape …
Insight, 13 January 2012
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… of the sectors that are driving their loss, including agriculture, mining and forestry, if the diversity of life is to survive. This …
Insight, 18 February 2020