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Community protocols can bring real benefits to communities and combat biodiversity loss
… community rules for the equitable sharing of benefits and for sustainable management of natural resources.   High up in the Peruvian … 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
Direct investment in the extractive industries: citizen empowerment for better governance and accountability
… Through our network of partners in oil-producing and mining regions of the world, IIED promoted exchange of knowledge and … direct investment in the extractive industries (oil, gas and mining).  We focused on six key areas for knowledge and skills sharing: … Law (CEPIL) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) organised a multi-stakeholder workshop on 'Oil and …
Project, 10 March 2009
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
… green economy, as well as many national green growth plans and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), make little reference to the billions of … 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
Corporate responsibility: what's in a name?
… last week (22 June), a group of around 60 policymakers, academics and development practitioners gathered to discuss, among other things, the … chains where standards are routinely ignored. They’re worried about mining and extractive industries. They’re worried about palm oil … works alone? How can you mainstream it? And how can you make it more sustainable? When it comes to CSR as a route to improving rural …
Article, 27 June 2011
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 funding. A significant part of our work is funded from official development assistance (ODA) – pegged by the UK government at 0.7% of … less power across many sectors – food, forests, farming, fishing and mining – to foster dialogue and cooperation. With that there may be a … for social justice, equitable policymaking, resilient communities and sustainable development but, as with global crises of the past, perhaps …
Insight, 28 May 2020
A community-owned Mexican sawmill in Oaxaca (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)
Incendiary observations from the 4th FLARE conference
… food security while also enriching tree cover, as I explain below Mining and infrastructure development are the third major cause of forest loss and equally … we need to make governments and donors aware of the huge potential of sustainable smallholder forestry. IIED and FAO partners at the Forest …
Insight, 22 October 2018
The Roșia Poieni copper mine in Romania, one of the largest copper reserves in Europe (Photo: Cristian Bortes via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Investor-state arbitration: Lessons from civil society advocacy
… can affect the extent to which investments respond to local development agendas as well as commercial considerations. Civil society … arbitration can have serious financial implications. Investments in mining, petroleum and agriculture have featured prominently in … experience IIED published a handbook  on 'foreign investment, law and sustainable development' that includes a discussion of investor-state …
Insight, 19 May 2014
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+?
… address the drivers of deforestation in the broader context of local development, which means tackling both the forest sector management … of biomass energy, and integrated land use planning for more sustainable mining and infrastructure development. The solution for the current …
Insight, 29 April 2014
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, … academics questioned whether the global land rush presented a genuine development opportunity for African countries or a speculative boom … on strengthening local control, and on supporting and incentivising sustainable land management practices, such as the community forestry …
Insight, 14 December 2020
Gatekeeper series: Local organization Profiles
… Understanding and Supporting the Role of Local Organizations in Sustainable Development David Satterthwaite and Gabriela Sauter, August 2008 All … and download GK137b: The Evolution of Casa Pueblo, Puerto Rico: From Mining Opposition to Community Revolution Alexis Massol-González, Avril …
Article, 01 April 2010