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Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project
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Time to tell a new story about artisanal and small-scale mining: time for a new "indaba"
As the mining sector gathers for the annual Indaba meeting, Steve Bass suggests that ongoing purposeful dialogue could make a big difference in tackling the problems facing the artisinal mining sector
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Listen and learn: lessons from the small-scale mining sector
Not enough has been heard from local voices in the mining sector over the last 10 years. In the next year, this needs to change.
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Building bridges between the money and the many in mining
Abbi Buxton reports on efforts to overcome distrust and conflict between artisanal and large-scale mining operations, through an international project that will bring the two sides together to seek sustainable ways to coexist.
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Dialogues for a sustainable and productive artisanal and small-scale mining sector
IIED's dialogue programme for the artisanal and small-scale mining sector allows stakeholders to collaborate to empower miners, improve governance and deliver a more secure working environment
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Mining: Implementing sustainability needs new perspective
When stakeholders at IIED's Fair Ideas conference in Rio discussed how the mining industry has fared in meeting the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development initiative (MMSD) agenda set 10 years ago, the challenge of implementation kept cropping up.
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The mining sector searches for sustainability
It is rare for a controversial industry to engage with its critics, seek advice and pledge positive action for sustainable development.
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Mining's search for sustainability: how far have we come?
Ten years ago, the mining industry, in collaboration with the IIED, set out to explore how it could maximise its contribution to sustainable development through the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project. So, what has happened since then? Where are we now?
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Mining: Big progress but new challenges as sector searches for sustainability
The mining and minerals industry has made major advances towards sustainability but the sector faces new challenges as governments in the global South reassert control over their natural resources yet lack the capacity to ensure mining can contribute to sustainable development.
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Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD)
The Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project (MMSD) was a research project looking at how the mining and minerals sector could contribute to the global transition to sustainable development. This page collates all the material previously available from 'iied.org/mmsd'. All project documents, including the MMSD Working paper Series, final reports, regional reports, project bulletins and workshop notes are available for free download.
