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Abbi Buxton

Associate, Natural Resources

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Abbi Buxton's work is focused on the large and small-scale mining sectors and corporate community relations in mining. Her expertise relates to market-based development models, private sector approaches to development, business and value chain analysis and small-scale producers in markets.

Expertise

Market-based development models; private sector approaches to development; business and value chain analysis; small-scale producers in markets; large and small-scale mining sectors.

Before IIED
  • Research analyst for OTF Group in Rwanda. Included work on the development of the Business Process Outsourcing cluster and research into targeted investment opportunities for the Horticulture cluster in Rwanda.
  • Business analyst for an international law firm. Researched and analysed client business strategies, organisational structures and industries for business development.

Education

  • MSc in Development Management, London School of Economics
  • LLB, University of Nottingham
  • Chartered Institute of Marketing Diploma
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Twitter: @abbibuxton
Languages: English, English, Afrikaans (intermediate) and French (basic)

Abbi Buxton's blog posts

Miners pushing a cart out of a mine near the Bolivian town of Potosi. For centuries this area had the richest silver mines in South America. Today many of the mines are worked by local cooperatives, but conditions are still harsh (Photo Nyall & Maryanne, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Listen and learn: lessons from the small-scale mining sector

Blog, Feb 2015
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

Blog, Nov 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

Blog, Feb 2014
A girl studies under the light of a rechargeable solar lamp.

New research series kicks off with look at energy delivery models

Blog, Dec 2012
A smallholder farmer stands by a bunch of sunflowers in Thika, Kenya.

How markets can bloom for Africa's smallholder farmers

Blog, Sep 2012
Open pit mine in Central Cebu, Philippines.

Mining: Implementing sustainability needs new perspective

Blog, Jun 2012
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