by Antoine Heuty | Feb 23, 2015 | Mining & Energy
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...
by Linda Pappagallo | Oct 15, 2014 | Agriculture
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...
by Guest Author | Aug 29, 2014 | Human Rights Due Diligence, Mining & Energy
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...
by Ulula | Jul 8, 2014 | Agriculture, Mining & Energy, Stakeholder Engagement
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...
by Linda Pappagallo | Jun 9, 2014 | Mining & Energy, Stakeholder Engagement
Redeyef is a phosphate-mining town close to the border of Algeria, known to be the site of important uprisings in 2008, a foretaste of Tunisia’s 2011 Jasmine revolution. A few weeks ago, Ulula visited local miners to understand and discuss community needs related to...
by Antoine Heuty | May 16, 2014 | Mining & Energy
Antoine Heuty and Linda Pappagallo The costs associated from escalating conflict with neighboring communities can be substantial for extractive sector companies. Here are three examples of what the oil, gas and mining community labels “non-technical risk” – risks...
