La extracción ilegal de oro ha crecido en la última década en la Amazonía, en parte debido a los altos precios internacionales de este mineral, la actuación menos estricta de algunos países respecto al medio ambiente y la búsqueda de oportunidades económicas inmediatas. A esto se suman...

This paper investigates the impact of Fair Trade standards on the lives of artisanal gold miners in Ghana. In cooperation with ten mining companies - five of which voluntary enrolled in a program to implement these standards and become Fair Trade certified - I evaluated the impact of these...

The implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes in Indonesia still largely involves charity to the community or efforts to earn a good name in the wider sphere. This is most especially the case in gold mining, where both large companies and community mining use hazardous...