Revue Internationale des Études du Développement (Dec 2022)
Access to Land and Natural Resources in the Peruvian Amazon
Abstract
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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