Gabriela Flores Zavala

Senior associate, Shaping Sustainable Markets

Gabriela Flores (gabriela.flores.zavala@gmail.com) is a communications specialist and senior associate at IIED

Latest publications

Small ventures, big hopes

Golden practices that defy gloom

Sapphire mines that become forests

Gabriela Flores Zavala's blog posts

Group of women forming a circle in a discussion

Building wider support for ecosystem-based adaptation: how can communications help?

Blog, Jul 2021

A woman surrounded by maize

Women ally with nature to adapt to climate change

Blog, Mar 2020

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

Pope Francis met with indigenous leaders, including Yesica Patiachi who is from the Harakbut people, one of the three main ethnic groups in the Madre de Dios region

On pilgrimage in Madre de Dios: starting a journey to sustainable artisanal mining

Blog, Feb 2018

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

François plants a young rosewood tree

Sapphire mines that become forests

Long read, Oct 2017