Natural resources and development

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• DR Congo’s miners bear brunt of attempts to make minerals conflict-free

  10 Sep 2014: Small-scale miners are suffering while armed groups benefit from legislation designed to cripple them, open letter warns

• Mining threatens to eat up northern Europe’s last wilderness

  3 Sep 2014: Vast network of rivers, lakes and mountains in Finland, Sweden and Norway at risk from being exploited for rare earth and other minerals
  

• Does Ghana’s oil boom spell the end for its fishing industry?

  22 Aug 2014: Fishermen say the foreign firms exploring for oil and gas are forcing them out of the waters they have trawled for centuries. By Mark Anderson and Billie Adwoa McTernan

• Glencore report: European Investment Bank must drag its secrets into the light

  20 Aug 2014: Rachel Baird: Reasons given by the bank for refusing to publish findings of an investigation into alleged tax evasion remain unconvincing

• Europe must do its bit to stop the trade in conflict minerals

  19 Aug 2014: Ed Zwick: We have to let our leaders know we do understand the link between products we buy and the suffering of others

• Seen but not heard: does it matter what children say about climate change?

  Guardian Professional, 15 Aug 2014: Despite repeated warnings from Unicef, children are not being involved in policymaking. How can they be included?

• Ghana’s plea to IMF a sad recognition of the perils of prosperity

  8 Aug 2014: Hopes of an influx of cash from oil have dried up as west Africa’s shining success story descends into inflation and ordinary people struggle to afford food. Monica Mark reports

• When land is degraded, its people and their prospects are degraded too

  7 Aug 2014: Monique Barbut: Investing in sustainable land management could help boost political, economic and climatic resilience in poor countries

• Could renewable energy make rural electrification a reality?

  Guardian Professional, 6 Aug 2014:

  Fredrika Whitehead on how cheap solar, wind or hydroelectricity, accessed through mini-grids, could light up remote villages

• How much illegal timber gets into the UK?

  31 Jul 2014: Are UK consumers still buying protected rainforest timbers? With your help, Karl Mathiesen investigates how much contraband timber still finds its way into the country

• 'Africa should stop blaming history for its economic problems' – is Obama right?

  30 Jul 2014: US president tells leaders to take responsibility for poverty and under-development rather than blaming colonialism. What do you think of his remarks?

• How Rwanda's gorillas are helping to sustain entire communities

  28 Jul 2014:

  A tourism revenue-sharing scheme has helped finance hundreds of community projects and benefitted thousands of people. Usher Komugisha and Andy Nicolson find out more

• Community control of forests could help combat climate change

  25 Jul 2014: Deforestation rates significantly lower in areas formally managed by local communities, data shows

• China's red furniture craze fuelling illegal logging in Guinea-Bissau

  23 Jul 2014: Appetite for African rosewood has driven a surge in illegal deforestation that threatens to destabilise local communities

• Niger activists arrested over Areva protest before François Hollande visit

  18 Jul 2014:

  Uranium deal between French nuclear firm and Niger government triggers demonstrations, followed by arrests

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