Extractive industries, livelihoods and natural resource competition: Mapping overlapping claims in Peru and Ghana

Peru and Ghana share the challenge of having to manage relationships between two sectors (resource extraction and agriculture) that are each important for economic growth and poverty reduction. Using national-scale visualization, cartographic representation and spatial analyses, this research explores the relationship between territories of extraction and livelihood territories.

Territories of extraction consist of mineral concessions, hydrocarbon concessions, and mine drainage areas. Livelihood territories consist of river basins, agricultural land cover and protected areas.

Maps of overlap between extractive concessions and river basins in (A) Perú and (B) Ghana.

Maps of overlap between extractive concessions and protected land use types in (A) Perú and (B) Ghana.

Maps of overlap between extractive concessions and agricultural land use in (A) Perú and (B) Ghana.

Mine Drainage Areas for portions of (A) Peru and (B) Ghana, shown with protected areas and agricultural land use.