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IIED research and evidence in academia
… implications of these. Featuring IIED’s Lorenzo Cotula . Cortec Mining Kenya Limited, Cortec (Pty) Limited, and Stirling Capital Limited … treaty between Kenya and the United Kingdom. The dispute relates to a mining project in Kenya. Featuring IIED’s Lorenzo Cotula . Between …
Article, 23 September 2020
Satellite image of the zinc, lead and silver mine in Cerro de Pasco, Peru.
Report scopes sustainability of China-Latin America relations
… with stakeholders to examine Chinese trade and investment in mining, agriculture and forestry in Chile, Brazil and Peru. It shows how …
News, 09 May 2013
Logging truck in Cameroon. Credit: World Resources Institute (Creative Commons)
What’s missing from private-sector REDD+?
Insight, 29 January 2014
Caspian Energy Initiative
… global initiative to promote revenue transparency in the oil, gas and mining sectors, EITI requires countries to declare the revenues they …
Project, 11 November 2011
Early morning in Dogo, West Java, Indonesia: getting low-cost furniture ready for selling on the street corner (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Formalising the informal
… licensing or certification? Wrong again. The chair of Women in Mining Ghana, Georgette Barnes Sakyi-Addo, described how the licensing …
Insight, 30 March 2016
A Raika man leading his sheep and goats to graze in the contested Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary.
How communities are protecting their biocultural resources with community protocols
… resources in the face of development threats from, for example, mining, logging and dam projects. Ironically, conservation efforts can … have resulted in some concrete gains, such as the postponement of mining in a community in Northern Ghana. In other cases, the development …
Insight, 02 October 2012
Fishing boats return to a beach on the Bay of Bengal.
New Commission for oceans in crisis
…   And related to those headline topics it has climate change, seabed mining and other emerging issues (like geo-engineering) in its sights. …
Insight, 14 February 2013
Animals gather in the shade of a rusting ship near the Aral Sea (Photo: Mark Pitcher)
Are Kazakhstan's plans for a greener future at risk?
… energy effectiveness and alternative energy mandates, modernising mining and minerals and strengthening overall sector governance. That …
Insight, 31 October 2014
The video 'Meet Mr Forest' was presented at the 2nd Beijing Documentary Week in August 2018 (Photo: Rachel E. Berkley/IIED)
New IIED videos inform Chinese consumers about Africa's forests
… businesses involved in forestry, agribusiness, infrastructure and mining activities, as well as African policymakers and civil society. In …
News, 21 August 2018
Chinese timber business in Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
China-Africa trade and investment: benefiting Africa's rural informal economy?
Insight, 31 March 2015