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EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES AND SOCIETY
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2022.101164
Keywords
Adaptation; Double exposure; Fringe communities; Forest zone; Mining
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- Foundation Fiat Panis
- German Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD)
- Center for Development Research (ZEF)
- University of Bonn
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The resilience of African rural livelihoods is at risk due to over-reliance on rain-fed agriculture and the impacts of climate variability. This study highlights the interconnectedness of climate variability and extractivism on rural livelihoods, and how contextual factors influence individuals' perceptions of these impacts. It emphasizes the need for policy-makers to include mining landscapes in national adaptation programs.
The resilience of African rural livelihoods is at risk due to over-reliance on rain-fed agriculture, which increasingly suffers from climate variability. Extractive communities are exposed to changes from extractivism and climate conditions. The double exposure framework is employed to contextualise factors influencing households' perspectives on the overlapping impacts of these change processes on livelihoods. The results affirm a general awareness that both climate variability and extractivism affect rural livelihoods. In addition, contextual factors such as gender, cultural connections, education, type of occupation, agroecological and resource extractivism types significantly influence households' perception of climate variability and extractivism effects on livelihoods. Example, large size households located in the deciduous forest zones are more likely to perceive that their livelihoods are double exposed to climatic variability and extractivism effects. Communities affected by mineral/forestry extractivism are more likely to perceive double exposure of climatic variability and extractivism effects on their livelihood sources. Households expect the national government and extractive companies to provide alternative livelihoods and improve infrastructure to enhance their resilience. The study shows that differential factors underpin the perceived risk of rural livelihoods exposure to climate change and extractivism, thus supporting the need for policy-makers to include mining landscapes in national adaptation programs.
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