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In November 2018, I travelled to Uganda with Eleanor Fisher (Project Lead) and Sabine Luning (Netherlands Principle Investigator and my supervisor) to visit the Gold Matters project partners and to learn about local Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM). Some observations , as I begin my PhD, are worth sharing. Today, on my first day…
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As an international and interdisciplinary research consortium, the Team spent two days at Leiden University in October 2018 for the launch of our ‘GOLD MATTERS project – Sustainability Transformations in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining: A Multi-Actor and Trans-Regional Perspective, funded jointly by NORFACE and Belmont Forum. Sustainability transformations At the heart of the ‘GOLD…
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