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Fishing the ocean

Long read

Action for an ocean for all

A typical milk bar in Kenya (Photo: Dave Elsworth/ILRI)

Project

MoreMilk – reviewing policy options for the informal dairy trade

Seedlings. Impact investing directs investment capital to enterprises delivering positive environmental and social impacts, and could play an important role in financing sustainable development (Photo: Geoff Maddock, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Blog

Business as usual – or business with purpose?

A stall-holder measures her produce in a marketplace (Photo: Hivos Bolivia)

Project

Sustainable diets for all

50% of the planet falls outside national boundaries. Ungoverned, these seas are exposed to widespread abuses such as overfishing or the dumping of chemical waste and plastic (Image: IIED/Soapbox)

News

IIED animation: how a new global treaty could turn the tide to save the high seas

Workshop participants undertake a participatory resource mapping exercise for community enterprises (Photo: Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources - ANSAB)

News

Forest and Farm Facility launches Phase II

Towards inclusive and responsible mining

Facilitating dialogue and collaboration for a fair and accountable mining sector More in this collection

Small-scale miners dry ores in the process of gold mining in Geita, Tanzania (Photo: John Louis/Investing In Gold, Creative Commons)

Project

Dialogues for a sustainable and productive artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector

Employees work deep within a tunnel at the Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village in Geita District, Tanzania in March 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

Project

Laying the foundations for a dialogue series on ASM

Working in shifts, an artisanal and small-scale miner in the Western region of Ghana relaxes at the top of a 15m mine shaft reinforced with a wooden 'cage' after several hours of digging (Photo: James McQuilken (@James_McQuilken/j.mcquilken@surrey.ac.uk))

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Ghana: on our way to participatory reform in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector

Publications

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Remote but productive: Practical lessons from productive uses of energy in Tanzania

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Moving More Money: Can aggregation catalyse off-grid financing?

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Sustainable Diets for All: Harnessing citizens’ voices for a diverse, healthy, fair and green food system

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Taking Stock: Indonesia Food Change Lab: Raising the profile of street food vendors as providers of healthy food for low-income consumers

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Taking Stock: Uganda Food Change Lab: Planning for a sustainable food system in the face of rapid urbanisation

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Taking Stock: Zambia Food Change Lab: Mobilising diverse actors to advocate for food diversity

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A women puts food into an outdoor oven

Keeping Bolivia’s culture alive through food

Blog, Jun 2019

Timber, pipes and other construction materials are piled up in front of a lorry

Discussion: Mining local procurement – a necessary lever to overcome the resource curse

Article, May 2019

Seedlings. Impact investing directs investment capital to enterprises delivering positive environmental and social impacts, and could play an important role in financing sustainable development (Photo: Geoff Maddock, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Business as usual – or business with purpose?

Blog, Apr 2019

A typical milk bar in Kenya (Photo: Dave Elsworth/ILRI)

MoreMilk – reviewing policy options for the informal dairy trade

Project, Apr 2019

Fishing the ocean

Action for an ocean for all

Long read, Mar 2019

50% of the planet falls outside national boundaries. Ungoverned, these seas are exposed to widespread abuses such as overfishing or the dumping of chemical waste and plastic (Image: IIED/Soapbox)

IIED animation: how a new global treaty could turn the tide to save the high seas

News, Feb 2019

Uganda food lab participants add their names to a declaration that came out of the lab discussions (Photo: Nimrod Bagonza)

Food Change Labs tackle complex issues with the whole system in the room

Blog, Jan 2019

CANARI’s Radar tool helps small and micro enterprises assess their impacts. Here Kemba Jaramogi from Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project in Trinidad and Tobago presents their Radar. (Photo: CANARI)

Time to turn the PAGE?

Blog, Jan 2019

Villagers in India dig out a silted-up water tank as part of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (Photo: McKay Savage, Creative Commons via Flickr)

2019 – the way forward is a Green Decent Work Guarantee

Blog, Dec 2018

Event: Towards an inclusive blue economy

News, Dec 2018

Fishing in Kenya's Lake Naivasha provides income for local people, but fish stocks have declined sharply due to over-fishing and the diversion of water for agriculture (Photo: Cheryl Q, Creative Commons via Flicker)

Green lessons for the blue economy

Blog, Dec 2018

Water and gravity are used to separate and, ultimately, leave the diamonds (Photo: James McQuilken/@J_McQuilken)

Sustainable development and artisanal mining: time to broaden the ‘blood diamonds’ conversation?

Blog, Dec 2018