دانلود کتاب نابرابری های جنسیتی در سیاست های معدنی آفریقا – بررسی نابرابری ها، تضاد منابع و پایداری

The importance of gendering the mining sector is recognized in the Africa Mining Vision (AMV). This is because, in the past few decades, there has been growing evidence of the significant contribution of the mining sector, and especially the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) to economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. High-commodity value metals such as gold, tin, and tantalum are especially linked to ASM, which significantly adds to their world supply and the welfare communities. The sector also produces approximately 80% of all sapphires, 20% of all gold, and up to 20% of all diamonds. ASM is seen as a mining sector that is lucrative, harnessing the potential to stimulate local entrepreneurship, improve livelihoods, and advance integrated rural socio-economic development. It is also a sector that has grown significantly in the past ten to fifteen years, driven by factors including increasing value addition along the value chain and the global boom in personal electronic industries, which has fuelled demand for minerals such as tin, tantalum, and tungsten. However, despite this positive development in the mining sector, the issue of beneficiation, value, and skewed distribution of proceeds from the industry remain concerns for the sustainable economic transformation and development of the continent and the attainment of gender equality. There is need to address these ills pivotal to the industrialization and stability of the continent.