Earlier this year, the Mongolian prime minister initiated an SMS poll to solicit feedback from citizens on how they though the government should stabilize the tugruk, the Mongolian currency. The two options Mongolian cell phone owners were given in the three-day poll...
Canada’s recent reforms in CSR regulations are not only a headliner, but also a practical challenge in terms of effective scalable stakeholder engagement. Over 50% of the world’s publicly traded mining companies are headquartered in Canada, and operate in over one...
During Mining Indaba 2013, Mark Cutifani, now CEO of UK-based mining giant AngloAmerican, declared, “We miss the local communities. In the information age when people can see how others are living, but have to sit next to a big hole in the ground and suffer the...
The sheer impact global food production has on our society, economy and environment is hard to overstate. Approximately three-quarters of the world’s agricultural value added is generated in developing countries, and in many of these the agriculture sector contributes...
Guest post by Thorbjørn Waal Lundsgaard Sierra Leone is best known for its violent civil war (1991-2002) and “blood diamonds”. Today the country is in the news because of the Ebola outbreak. According to the WHO, there have been 422 deaths so far with over 1,026 more...
Brendan Murphy and Oseyi Ikuenobe New research by Daniel Franks (Center for Social Responsibility in Mining) and Queensland University and Rachel Davis (Shift) find that delays in world-class mining operations valued between US$ 3 and US$ 5 billion caused by conflict...
