Note from the field The environmental and socio-economic impacts of mining on local livelihoods in Tanzania: A case study of Geita District

By A. Kitula. 2006

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De-agrarianization, re-agrarianization and local economic development: Re-orientating livelihoods in African artisanal mining communities (2010, background): “Despite failing to garner much attention in the mainstream livelihoods literature to date, ASM has become an important topic in international development over the past 10‐15 years, its social and environmental impacts spawning extensive discussion (see Hinton et al. 2003; Kambani 2003; Maponga and N”
Socio-economic and environmental implications of Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) on agriculture and livelihoods (2020, background): “When mined land is rendered unsuitable for agriculture (Kitula, 2006; Mantey et al., 2016), the loss of employment and income opportunities in the rural agrarian economy lock the local population into ASM, the riskier and more unsustainable of the two ventures (Veiga and Marshall, 2019; Arthur et…”
Socioeconomic and environmental assessment of informal artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana (2018, background): “Despite the economic gains of ASM, it is known to cause security, safety, and environmental issues such as mercury contamination (Hilson et al., 2007; Serfor-Armah et al., 2005), land degradation (Hentschel et al., 2002), pollution, and harm to biodiversity (Kitula, 2006).”