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Shaping Sustainable markets

A snack store in Bandung, Indonesia (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Sustainable diets for all

A huge selection of photos are displayed in a Peru supermarket (Photo: Teresa Stanton, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Blog

Nourishing diversity in our food systems

François plants a young rosewood tree

Long read

Sapphire mines that become forests

Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)

Article

Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement

A man transports logs by bicycle. Services provided by informal economies, such as small-scale logging, are often not integrated into plans for green growth (Photo: Jolien Schure/CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Article

Informal economy and green growth conference pinpoints need for new policy agenda

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)

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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)

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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

17492IIED

Off-grid productivity: powering universal energy access

16640IIED

Action dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in Tanzania

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Artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania – Evidence to inform an ‘action dialogue’

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Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Challenges and opportunities for greater participation

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Contract farming and informality: drivers and governance responses in Zambia and Zimbabwe

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Citizen-generated evidence for a more sustainable and healthy food system

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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

Event, 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

A small farm near the Scottish town of Crief

Understanding the role of small farms in Europe (SALSA)

Project, Nov 2018

A timber market in Yaoundé

New director for IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group

News, Oct 2018

A man from Malawi holds cotton in his hands

IIED webinar: Incentive-based contract farming and agricultural commodities exchanges

News, Sep 2018

Plates of traditional Kabarole food

Creating knowledge and supporting action: citizen-generated evidence from food diaries in Uganda

Blog, Sep 2018

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

Forest and Farm Facility launches Phase II

News, Jul 2018