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The process or business of extracting ore or minerals from the ground.
 

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Gender, Land and Mining in Mongolia cover image

Gender, Land and Mining in Mongolia

Reports & Research
January 2018
Mongolia
Land & Gender
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
capacity development
gender equity in access to land
land acquisitions
land governance
land investments
local communities
mining
pastoralists
research
rural development
tenure security
women

Mokoro’s practical and action-oriented long-term strategic research project, the Women’s Land Tenure Security Project (WOLTS), is piloting its methodology through a ‘Study on the threats to women’s land tenure security in Mongolia and Tanzania’.

Trends in global land use investment: implications for legal empowerment cover image

Trends in global land use investment: implications for legal empowerment

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
January 2018
Global
Land & Investments
land investments
land use
legal empowerment
mining
palm oil industries
research

From the mid-2000s, a commodity boom underpinned a wave of land use investments in low- and middle-income countries. While agribusiness, mining and petroleum concessions often involve promises of jobs and public revenues, they have also prompted concerns about land dispossession, exclusionary investment models and infringements of the rights of vulnerable groups. 

open community contracts

Open Community Contracts

Training Resources & Tools
January 2018
Global
Land & Investments
forestry
agriculture
mining
natural resources management
land investments
extractive industries

OpenCommunityContracts.org is a repository of publicly available community-investor or community-government contracts and agreements relating to agriculture, forestry, mining, oil and gas extraction and other natural resource projects. It features plain language summaries of key provisions and provides links to learn more about how each agreement was negotiated and implemented in practice.

Determining the Frequency of Dry Lake Bed Formation in Semi-Arid Mongolia From Satellite Data

Peer-reviewed publication
December 2017
Global
mining
geographical information systems

In the Mongolian Plateau, the desert steppe, mountains, and dry lake bed surfaces may affect the process of dust storm emissions. Among these three surface types, dry lake beds are considered to contribute a substantial amount of global dust emissions and to be responsible for “hot spots” of dust outbreaks.

Trends in global land use investment: implications for legal empowerment

Reports & Research
December 2017
Africa
mining
dispossession
land use
legal empowerment
land

From the mid-2000s, a commodity boom underpinned a wave of land use investments in low- and middle-income countries. While agribusiness, mining and petroleum concessions often involve promises of jobs and public revenues, they have also prompted concerns about land dispossession, exclusionary investment models and infringements of the rights of vulnerable groups.

Mining water governance : everyday community-mine relationships in the Peruvian Andes

Reports & Research
December 2017
Peru
mining
water rights
water management

This thesis documents as well as questions how the presence of large mining operations in Andean regions of Peru alters social and natural landscapes. Taking conflicts over water as a useful entry-point for the analysis, it explores and unravels the dilemmas and challenges faced by the main conflicting actors: rural communities and mining companies.

Analysis of damaged land changes in Klaipeda County of Lithuania

Conference Papers & Reports
December 2017
Latvia
Lithuania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
mining
land degradation

The article presents the analysis of the current situation of the damaged land in Klaipeda County. The study found that the number of affected areas in the county – 266. Because the damaged areas consist of mineral quarries and territories occupied by dumps, the article contains the description and condition of these areas.

Legal, policy and institutional frameworks for community land rights in the wake of developmental projects in Zimbabwe : challenges and way forward

Reports & Research
December 2017
Kenya
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Southern Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary law
land rights
mining
property rights

This research reviews legislation and policies in Zimbabwe that have a direct or indirect bearing on the relocation of communities. The current model for large-scale investments has changed from previous models, where the majority of investment projects were undertaken by international companies with limited governmental intervention.