RODGERS SANKALIMBA. ABSTRACT This study attempts to carry out a historical study of economic reforms in post-colonial Zambia from 1964 to 1991. In so doing, it reveals that the country encountered internal and external challenges at independence. Internally, all the mines were owned by foreigners. The study shows that Zambia only had foreign ...
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Environmental impacts can affect human health in local communities directly (e.g., having toxic or carcinogenic effects) or indirectly through, e.g., reduced water supply or contamination (and consequential prevention of fishery and loss of means of livelihood). ... Analyzing the economic implications of mining for Nonmetropolitan regions. Sociol.
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The study determines the effects of mining on rural livelihoods, adopted strategies and the role of stakeholder and regulatory institutions. The study achieves this by investigating the status of key rural livelihood indicators, what influence the choice of livelihood strategies in mining communities and the assessment of institutional performance. The role of …
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1. For useful reviews of this literature see Laws and Leftwich (2012) and Hickey (2013).. 2. For this paper, CSR is an "umbrella term" taking in the voluntary and quasi-voluntary actions undertaken by mining companies to mitigate their environmental or social impacts or improve the social or environmental wellbeing of the areas in which they …
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2. Description of the study area. The Bokoni platinum mine is one of the many mines in South Africa and has been in operation since 1963. The mine is situated about 80 km southeast of Polokwane City in Limpopo Province of South Africa with site coordinates of 24°17ʹ35.78"S and 29°51ʹ58.11"E ().The mine sits on an undulating plain between a …
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Assessing the vulnerability of local communities in Zambia's Solwezi copper mining district to mining impacts. Application of the livelihood …
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Mining resources (mainly copper), whose extraction and export were initiated during colonial times, have played an important role in the economy of Zambia, a landlocked country in central-southern Africa. This country faces serious development challenges, especially regarding economic structural transformation, deficient public goods, and high ...
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owned mining companies were given control of vast tracts of land in and around various mine sites. Indeed, in 1999, Zambia's state-owned mining company was the second largest land holder in Zambia after the state itself.6 In the 1990s, social, political and economic factors combined to create the land crisis that exists in Zambia today.
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As a start, increasing the share of local ownership (private and public) of Zambia's mining assets, including through joint ventures, could cure the perennial fears in the country …
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people living in local mining communities (Andrews, 2016). Apart from the Copperbelt, there are also mining activities taking place in the North-Western part of the country. The mines in the North-Western province are relatively new compared to those found on the Copperbelt. Some of the mines in the province are the Kalumbila mine,
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Impacts of strip mining: Strip mining destroys landscapes, forests and wildlife habitats at the site of the mine when trees, plants, and topsoil are cleared from the mining area. This in turn leads to soil erosion and destruction of agricultural land. When rain washes the loosened top soil into streams, sediments pollute waterways.
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Mining companies in Zambia have been left to regulate their own land planning which has contributed to the land planning challenges in the mining areas currently facing the country [72] A study conducted on the impacts of large-scale land acquisitions in Zambia found that the affected mining communities rarely have secure land rights and …
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The mining industry needs to formulate clear strategies to address these misconceptions, and to engage the local community of Kankoyo, if it is to survive. Despite the significant reduction in air pollution that has been …
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The history and economics of Zambia is a story of copper mining. From unpromising beginnings, the first half of the 20th century saw Zambia, a country of less than two …
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This study examined the environmental and social effects of large-scale mining in Chingola, Zambia. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 164 residents living close to Zambia's largest open pit mine, key informants and desk analysis of secondary data. ... negatively affecting the local economy. Mine management …
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The cobalt mining sector is well positioned to be a key contributor in determining the success of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Despite the important contribution to the DRC's economy, the rapid expansion of mining operations has resulted in major social, …
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The World Bank-funded $65.6 million Zambia Mining and Environmental Remediation and Improvement Project (ZMERIP), aims to reduce environmental health …
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appeal. Communities, stakeholders and independent experts have expressed concerns that bring into question the legitimacy of the Project proposal, and whether it is in the best interests of Zambia for the Project to proceed. Open-pit mining is incompatible with biodiversity conservation; the only question is one of spatial and temporal scale.
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In the annual publication of the World Mining Data, 65 mineral commodities are produced from 168 countries. This data are statistically summarized and evaluated by World Mining Data [20].The world …
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Mining continues to be a dangerous activity, whether large-scale industrial mining or small-scale artisanal mining. Not only are there accidents, but exposure to dust and toxins, along with stress from the working environment or managerial pressures, give rise to a range of diseases that affect miners. I look at mining and health from various …
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Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining can yield a range of benefits to societies, but it may also cause …
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Livelihood implications of artisanal gold mining in farming communities: insight from the Wa East District, Ghana 87 the small-scale mining sector is blamed on the difficulty, bureaucracy, cost, and time involved in obtaining the license in Ghana (Hilson et al., 2014). Thus, most artisanal and small-scale miners
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particularly in the mining, manufacturing and agriculture sectors. According to the Ministry of Finance, Zambia's economy has been growing at an average of 5% per annum over the past 10 years. Strategic utilization and development of Zambia's energy sources can increase industry competitiveness, improve rural
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While it is argued that the mining companies in the copper belt in Zambia have been seeking to address a number of pressing community level concerns, their approach to formulating a coherent CSR strategy has been ad hoc and fragmented. ... on the Copper belt in Zambia found that due to the complexity of mining operations, local …
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Mining comes with a lot of impacts. Some of the negative impacts of mining on host communities are water pollution (surface and underground), land degradation, air pollution and displacement of people. Despite all this, mining activities do also have …
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Forest Management, and the limited decentralization and empowerment of communities to manage and benefit from local resources. NGOs have largely been excluded in resource management such as the CRBS under the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA). 6. The Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) though a critical and important
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Mining resources (mainly copper), whose extraction and export were initiated during colonial times, have played an important role in the economy of Zambia, a …
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One cause of mining is population growth. With an increasing population, the overall world consumption levels also increase. This means that in order to be able to provide enough goods for the world population, resources have to be extracted at large scale. One great possibility to extract these resources is mining.
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The implications of this mining proposal and the precedent it sets for mining within protected areas in Zambia are also discussed. ... Contextual factors across the four local communities seemed ...
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Copper mining occupies a central place in the Copperbelt of Zambia, permeating every aspect of life—the social, economic and political. Any major change in the copper value chain and in the operation of the copper mining companies located in the province can thus affect the Copperbelt community in a significant way, impacting men and women …
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Zambia's economy rebounded in 2021, with real GDP growing at 4.6%, from a contraction of 2.8% in 2020, supported by firmer copper prices, favorable external demand, good rainfall, and post-election market confidence. In 2022, challenges in agriculture, mining, and construction slowed down the pace of post-pandemic recovery.
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Ghana has a long history of mining but many stakeholders are of the view that there are no commensurate benefits of mining to indigenous s in local communities located in the mining areas (Kapstein and Kim, 2011). In the 2012 budget, the Minister of Finance in Ghana indicated that many stakeholders in the
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In Geita District, the dominant indigenous tribe is the Sukuma group, which comprise mainly socio-cultural agro-pastoralists. The results in Table 3 indicate that 2.7% and 10.8% of respondents in mining and non-mining communities, respectively, are agro-pastoralists (p < 0.05). However, it was frequently observed that mine pits (Plate 1) …
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Yet the current hierarchy in issues pertaining to the conservation of resources strips the local community of its sovereignty and control over resources. As a result, the area faces high level of environmental degradation ranging from deforestation to gully formation. ... The above observations mirror findings of studies in Zambia, Mozambique ...
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Mankind started mining for precious metals between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago. For the last century, mining has been one of our planet's largest industries (it generated 683 billion dollars in revenue in 2018 alone). This only underscores the fact that our desire for precious metals and minerals has grown exponentially since we first started digging through the …
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