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IIED at ministerial green economy conference

Event on 27 March 2017

An artisanal miner

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

Active Project

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)

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

News, 31 March 2016

A welder uses home-made equpiment in Kenya, where the Jua Kali (informal economy) thrives and can solve any problem (Photo: Erik (HASH) Hersman, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Lessons from the informal sector

Insight, 24 February 2016

Food vendors give people living in Nairobi's informal settlements easy access to fresh food (Photo: Grace Githiri)

Nourishing livelihoods: the food vendors sustaining Nairobi's slums

Insight, 15 January 2016

A typical Kenya milk bar. Packaged milk in supermarkets has been found to be no better at meeting food safety standards than raw milk sold from kiosks (Photo: International Livestock Research Institute, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Lessons in informality from Kenya's dairy sector

Insight, 03 November 2015

A street vendor sells produce in Surabaya, Indonesia (Photo: Schristia, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Showcasing innovations in policy approaches to informality

Article, 21 July 2015

A collection of resources and images relating to the artisanal and small-scale mining sector compiled by IIED (Photos/images: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures and IIED)

A day of sharing ASM knowledge

Article, 25 June 2015

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)

Laying the foundations for a dialogue series on artisanal and small-scale mining

Active Project

Artisanal and small-scale mining accounts for 20 per cent of world gold production (Photo: Travis Lupick, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Delivering solutions through multi-stakeholder dialogue

Active Project

Customers at a milk bar in Ndumbuini in Kabete, Nairobi. Research in Kenya has found that milk sold in this way had similar bacterial levels to those sold in formal markets (Photo: ILRI/Paul Karaimu)

What do street food, charcoal, gold, mobile phones and milk have in common?

Insight, 17 December 2014

Ancestral miners rush to find gold and platinum ore at a mine wall opened by medium-scale mining (Photo: Ronald de Hommel)

Informality and formalisation in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector

Insight, 12 November 2014

A panel discusses artisanal and small-scale mining at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town (Photo: Abbi Buxton/IIED)

Building bridges between the money and the many in mining

Insight, 11 February 2014

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

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

Active Project

Traders take matooke to market

Resilient Dynamism? An informal word with leaders meeting in Davos

Insight, 22 January 2013

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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)

Informal economy