Manzini A., Sadio L., Descroix Luc. (2024). Peasant resistances value for global sustainability : three failed coastal grabs of metal mining projects in West Africa.
[s.l.] : LDPI, 27 p. multigr. (LDPI Working Paper). Global Land Grabbing International Conference, Bogota (COL), 19/03/2024-21/03/2024.
Titre du document
Peasant resistances value for global sustainability : three failed coastal grabs of metal mining projects in West Africa
Année de publication
2024
Type de document
Colloque
Auteurs
Manzini A., Sadio L., Descroix Luc
Source
[s.l.] : LDPI, 2024,
27 p. multigr. (LDPI Working Paper).
Colloque
Global Land Grabbing International Conference, Bogota (COL), 19/03/2024-21/03/2024
Since 2003 Senegambia and Guinea Bissau coastal areas have been the arena of 750 km square coastal grabs by outside interests in collusion with local governments. The mining of coastal Heavy Mineral Sand deposits, rich in zircon and titanium ores (ilmenite, rutile) began in 2003 in the Gambia, 2008 in Guinea Bissau and 2014 in Northern Senegal. The research analyses the power dynamics of land grabbing related to mining extractions, their rhythms, and attitudes towards peasant communities. An initial effort is aimed at delineating the plots of power in the three political contexts at the regime scale. It focuses on three articulated peasant resistances that have been forcing the mining projects to fail: Kartung-Sanyang (The Gambia) Varela-Nhiquim (Guinea Bissau) and Niafourang-Abené (Senegal). These peasant communities refuse the development model behind the mining projects for their territories, deploying endogenous mechanisms to stop land grabbing. The research interrogates future, desires, needs and value systems of these peasant resistances. It addresses failures to assess sustainability in the 'evaluative statements' of the so-called ?third evaluators' with a high degree of 'technical discretion'. The ecological counter assessments bring evidence of the vulnerabilities and risks due to climate change starting from the counterfactual scenarios for the three case studies, comparing them with the impacts that these coastal grabs have or potentially could have on the ecosystem services that are protecting communities from climate hazards. Concluding remarks debate on the value of peasant resistances for global sustainability. Finally, the study proposes an integrated monitoring system to alert communities on potential risks of mining operations that could support the institutionalisation process of a Transnational Observatory on Coastal Land Grabbing in West Africa.
Plan de classement
Environnement, écologie générale [021ENVECO]
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Secteur minier et énergie [096ENERG]
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Milieu rural, sociologie rurale, systèmes agraires, foncier rural [098RURAL1]
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Vie politique [114VIPOL]
