Access to Land and Natural Resources in the Peruvian Amazon
This article explores power relations between farmers and artisanal gold miners based on an analysis of a buffer zone in the Amazonian department of Madre de Dios (Peru), which has been experiencing a gold rush since the mid-2000s. It provides insight into mining territorialisation processes on agri...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Éditions de la Sorbonne
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Revue Internationale des Études du Développement |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ried/2287 |
| Summary: | This article explores power relations between farmers and artisanal gold miners based on an analysis of a buffer zone in the Amazonian department of Madre de Dios (Peru), which has been experiencing a gold rush since the mid-2000s. It provides insight into mining territorialisation processes on agricultural lands, actor dynamics and mechanisms of access to and use of land and its resources. Taking a different angle to the analyses already produced on the conflictual nature of their relations, this article endeavours to shed light on a distinct, but no less present phenomenon: the negotiated nature of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) and the mutual arrangements made between stakeholders for access to and use of natural resources. |
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| ISSN: | 2554-3415 2554-3555 |