Sustainable markets | International Institute for Environment and Development

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Shaping Sustainable markets

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

Project

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

16640IIED

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

16641IIED

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

17617IIED

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

G04300

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

G04301

People centred advocacy for a more sustainable food system

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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

Artisanal fishermen in the Philippines. In a nation made up of 7,100 islands, small-scale fishing provides livelihoods to hundreds of thousands of people. (Photo: Bernard Spragg. NZ, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: Revealing the value of small-scale fishing to national economies

Article, May 2018

Smallholder farmer with pumpkins she harvested in her maize field in Chongwe, Zambia (Photo: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

We need to safeguard biodiversity and promote diverse diets

Blog, May 2018

The Sustainable diets for all programme recognises that people – with their capacity to innovate and power to drive change – must be at the centre of efforts to reshape our failing food systems (Photo: © Mauricio Panozo of Lucano photography. Bolivia, La Paz)

How people are providing evidence, and influencing to get food policies that work for them

Blog, Apr 2018

IIED's third #shareASM digital day will take place on 15 March across the globe (Image: IIED)

IIED to host 3rd online artisanal and small-scale mining day

News, Mar 2018

Artisanal and small-scale mining stakeholders in Tanzania explore solutions to key challenges (Photo: Steve Aanu/IIED)

Using dialogue to extract sustainable solutions for artisanal and small-scale mining

Blog, Feb 2018

A small fishing boat off the Albanian coast (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)

Three things I learnt from a small-scale fisherman in Albania

Blog, Jan 2018

A photo of the Amazon rainforest, with water in the foreground. Sixty per cent of the rainforest, which covers 2,100,000 square miles, is located in Brazil (Photo: www.bbmexplorer.com, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Critical theme: lessons and ideas for sustainable development in the Amazon

Event, Oct 2017

A woman miner holds a rough red garnet found at a mine in Tanzania. Tanzania's artisanal and small-scale miners are fuelled by determination and the hope to strike it big (Photo: Magali Rochat)

Four lessons on communicating ASM stories of change

Blog, Oct 2017