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Introduction to EITI and principles of good governance in the oil and gas sector (Russian)
… global initiative to promote revenue transparency in the oil, gas and mining sectors. It requires countries to declare the revenues they …
Publication, 01 December 2011
Clearing forest for a palm oil plantation in Borneo (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Commodity cycles, economic treaties and pressures on land rights
… , indigenous peoples' land restitution claims in Paraguay (PDF) , and mining projects in Bolivia and Peru . Land rights problems in …
Insight, 25 May 2016
A hippo emerges from the Zambezi near the Mana Pools Wildlife Conservation Area in northern Zimbabwe (Photo: Terry Feuerborn, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Biodiversity stories: building understanding in the media leads to richer reporting
… threats to the country's biodiversity caused by activities such as mining in national parks and the cutting down of huge swathes of …
Article, 21 March 2016
Meceburi Forest, Mozambique: a young woman harvests casava (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?
… In Myanmar military elites, drug lords and crony companies control mining and trade in jade worth $31 billion a year – equivalent to half …
Insight, 11 February 2016
Care workers in Guinea put on protective clothing (Photo: EC/ECHO)
Ebola – what must we learn?
… town to city, from forest zone to the Sahel, from fields to gold-mining sites. Late October means it is the end of the harvest, so many …
Insight, 30 October 2014
A farmer's house and sugar cane field in Cambodia, where there is concern about large-scale investment in sugar plantations driving local people off the land (Photo: Brian Hoffman, via Creative Commons)
Human rights should be at the heart of investment policy making
… implications for human rights. For example, investments in petroleum, mining or agriculture may squeeze the land rights of farmers, herders …
Insight, 20 October 2014
Farmers sit in a field sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, Peru.
Making the Nagoya Protocol work at the community level
… company . In northern Ghana, a community protocol resulted in mining being postponed to protect religiously significant areas of …
Insight, 04 July 2012
A rally protesting against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) takes place in Wellington, New Zealand (Photo: Neil Ballantyne, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The rise of civil society advocacy on investment treaties in Malaysia and the Philippines
… issues covered by an investment treaty that link to their work (e.g. mining, human rights or corporate accountability issues). Building the …
Insight, 26 March 2015
South Africa President Jacob Zuma speaks to China counterpart Xi Jinping at the FOCAC summit in Sandton, Johannesburg in 2015. China is increasingly influential in Africa (Photo: GCIS/GovernmentZA, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
CSR practices of Chinese businesses in the global South
… companies were more familiar with some sector specific guidelines in mining and contracting. But our research  indicates that a proliferation …
Insight, 31 March 2016
Hotel Sri Tahjung
Rafts of rubber and a hotel for birds with spit that sells
… because so much of its forests are now reserved for logging or mining. But forest conservation also imposes limits on livelihoods for …
Insight, 21 February 2012