The business case for greening the extractive industry is strong, especially with the growing trend of ethical investing. Everything we consume has its origins in either agriculture or the extractive industries. Our...
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Prevention is better than cure
How enforceable are the environmental rights in Zimbabwe’s Constitution? In Zimbabwe, environmental rights are among the fundamental rights and freedoms conferred on every person as per the Constitution. Before the...
Economic diversification through mining requires gender and community rights focus
The pressure to diversify Nigeria’s economy presents opportunities. Yet, deeper reform in mining is needed to realise the sector’s enormous potential. If there is an African country that requires sustainable mining to...
A long and potholed road: Sustainable stock exchanges
Markets around the world are adopting the environmental, social and good governance agenda, but “integrated reporting” faces problems in Africa By Richard Jurgens In August 2012 police fired on a crowd of striking...
African mining development is challenged by a shortage of investment funding
Africa’s mining sector has proven a mixed blessing. The continent’s mineral resources offer enormous possibilities for wealth, but they are also hard to reach. Sub-Saharan Africa, with the inhospitable Arctic, remains...
Time to rethink policy
Africa: mining Across the continent, a wave of mining policy adjustments is impacting Africa’s investment attractiveness By Jade Davenport Mining, by nature, is an exploitative, dangerous and environmentally damaging...
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