Development

Artisanal mining causes serious environmental damage through water contamination with heavy metals like mercury and cyanide, deforestation, soil erosion and siltation. Because of this, artisanal mining has been criminalized in Zimbabwe. However, the criminalization of artisanal mining has failed to stop the activity of an estimated 500,000 artisanal miners extracting gold, diamonds, tantalite and chrome […]

BOGOR, Indonesia (5 November 2013) — As the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw approach, it’s time to take stock of the international development framework within which they are contextualized. Here, five key questions are considered: 1. The Background – who was calling for Sustainable Development Goals and why? In 2015, the anti-poverty targets and indicators […]

It is difficult to convince a person who has spent their entire life in internally displaced persons camps to participate in environmental conservation activities. Orphans growing up during war and relying only on food rations. Traumatized people returning home and looking at trees only in terms of the products they can gain from them. People […]

Well-intentioned plans are too often abandoned and forgotten when villagers are left out of the land-use planning process. Conversely, by placing a 3D map (complete with familiar landmarks) in the middle of a table and asking residents what they would do as a developer, conservationist or village leader, it suddenly becomes easier to incorporate local […]

NAFRI; IRD; CIFOR. 2012

Watts, J.D.; Vihemaki, H.; Rantala, S.; Boissiere, M. 2011