The study focuses on women's coping mechanisms that are embedded within traditional social networks in relation to an external intervention, a low-tech mechanical cassava grater, intended to strengthen their livelihoods. Using archival records and field survey data, the case study of rutile mining in southwestern Sierra Leone connects the low-waged mining labour of traditional resource-based subsistence communities and deepening marginalization of and financial pressures on women in mining households to global mineral markets. The discussion focuses on how the extraction of mineral resources instigated by exogenous capital investors forces links to household transformation, particularly the vulnerability context of women.
This paper draws from world-systems and sustainable livelihoods approaches to analyze the connections between multinational exports of rutile (titanium oxide), diminished ecological resources and resource-based livelihoods, and gendered household dynamics in a peripheralized mining region in Sierra Leone. Clearly demarcated industrial and artisanal mining zonesĪnd equity and transparency in the distribution of mineral revenuesĬould minimize potential conflicts between corporations and mining To empower mining communities so that they can elect credible local Policy makers should employ broad-based strategies Transformation of fertile lands (wetlands) to mining lands,Īnd without required reclamation, had negative consequences on theĪgricultural productivity of local residents in mining areas.Įxamination of power relations constituted the pros and cons of managingĭiamond exploitation. Mining had broader implications as the forest, land, and water wereĪffected. Remote sensing analysis and social surveys revealed that negativeĮnvironmental impacts were more manifested in the diamond miningĬhiefdoms than in non-mining areas, confirming the environment as majorĭimensions of the resource curse. Spatial proximity to Guinea and Liberia facilitated diamond smuggling. Located mining sites than in extractive sites closer to towns, and Illicit diamond mining was more acute in remotely Study demonstrate that the spatiality of diamonds also contributed to South American counterparts who made at least 7 daily. Study findings showed that the resourceĬurse was acute on diggers who received less than 1 a day unlike their National mining policy reforms and the weakness of the state in ensuringĬompanies' adherence to mining clauses precipitatedĬorporation-community conflicts. Preferential landĪllocation to industrial mining following World Bank Group-directed Illicit diamond exploitation was mainly driven by corruption, economicĬonstraints and perverse economic incentives. Findings indicated thatĪctors capitalized on a weak regulatory state to fulfill their agendas. In a civil war fuelled by conflict diamonds. With grievances over access to diamond resources and rights, culminating The politicization of diamonds and growing informalization of mining Of diamonds to national economic growth declined precipitously following Results of the study showed that the contribution Remotely-located diamonds are more a liability than an asset, and (4)Īssess whether environmental conditions are worse in diamond than in Historical lens, (2) examine the extent to which a weak regulatory stateĪpparatus makes a rich diamond endowment more of a curse than aīlessing, (3) determine whether geographically diffuse and The role of Sierra Leone's diamonds in economic development from a
Methods and remote sensing analysis of Landsat images to (1) evaluate Sierra Leone, with Kono District as a case-study. Theory on the social production of scale, this dissertation examines theĮxtent to which diamond exploitation constitutes a resource curse in Using an actor-oriented approach to political ecology integrated with
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