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Under-Mining Agriculture: How Extractives Threaten Our Food Systems

 

Undermining Agriculture
Undermining Agriculture

This report by the Gaia Foundation looks at the impacts of expanding mining activities on the earth’s ecosystems and communities. It focuses on the adverse implications for agricultural systems through the impacts on land, water, air, climate and livelihoods. Case studies from different countries support the report’s key message that mining, fuelled by false growth visions, threatens the most basic natural resources, endangering food security in multiple ways.