The Agricultural Sector as an Alternative to Illegal Mining in Peru A Case Study of Madre de Dios (original) (raw)

Informal and Illegal Mining: Social, Economic and Environmental Scope in Peru (Atena Editora)

Informal and Illegal Mining: Social, Economic and Environmental Scope in Peru (Atena Editora), 2024

Este estudio se realizó con la finalidad de analizar la actividad minera informal e ilegal del Perú, a través de distintas fuentes reconocidas, enfocado en los aspectos que alcanza: ámbito social, medioambiental y económico, destacando la importancia de brindar a las poblaciones vulnerables más afectadas las herramientas que les permitan desarrollar dicha actividad dentro de la legislación nacional y potenciar así su crecimiento económico, desarrollando además como aporte, una comisión unificada que permita regular y mejorar las condiciones de trabajo, brindando protección tanto a los individuos, como al ambiente, el agua, suelos y el aire, contando para ello con el compromiso de las entidades estatales, empresas privadas y la ciudadanía, para revertir los efectos nocivos de la actividad minera y apalancar una productividad ambientalmente responsable para el mejor porvenir del país.

Mining in Peru: Indigenous and Peasant Communities vs. The State and Mining Capital

Class, race and corporate power. Website: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1037&context=classracecorporatepower, 2014

The Peruvian economy depends for its growth on the export of natural resources and investment in the mining and hydrocarbon sectors. Peruvian governments and mining corporations have confronted antimining protests in different ways. While the current government has introduced policies of social inclusion to soften the negative effects of the operations of mining capital and policies of dialogue to engage social actors with the essence of governmental policies, mining companies use corporate social responsibility programs as a cover for the devastating effects of their operations on the environment and the livelihoods and habitats of the indigenous and peasant communities. Curiously, in the current context of the declining commodity prices and export volumes the Peruvian government strengthens its extractivist model of development. This article argues that whatever government that follows the rules of capital cannot but favor the corporations. It points out the main adversaries of the indigenous and peasant communities and the problems to transform the locally and/or regionally struggle into a nationwide battle for another development model.

Extractive industries and local development in the Peruvian Highlands

Environment and Development Economics, 2014

During the last 20 years, the mining sector in Peru has been experiencing sustained growth. Using census, administrative, nationally and regionally representative data we compare districts in the Peruvian Highlands with a recent mining development with suitable counterfactuals. We find that the new mining activities attract migration inflows, and have some positive effects over educational indicators, and that these impacts, on average, are smaller in districts with lower levels of corporate social expenditure. However, the results of this study suggest that the local potential welfare impact of the mining boom is largely untapped and corporate social responsibility has had a limited role in improving this effect.

Impact of metal mining on per capita family income in Peru

Mineral Economics, 2022

The objective of the research was to measure the impact of metal mining production on per capita family income at the district level, during the period 2003 and 2019. For this purpose, the data from the United Nations report and the econometric methodology of difference in differences were used with and without spatial effects. The results without spatial effect show that the impact of mining on monthly per capita family income between 2003 and 2019 was 207.42 soles. However, considering the effects of spatial spillover, the total impact was 291.61 soles, which is decomposed into a direct and indirect impact of 189.77 soles and 101.84 soles, respectively. Likewise, the results suggest that there is a total impact of 77.25 soles on the per capita family income of the neighboring non-mining district. These results suggest that there is ample space for the design and implementation of public policies for the mining sector.