ECAS 2009
3rd European Conference on African Studies
Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009
Panel 5: Natural resources and livelihoods of the poor in the Great Lakes Region: Orphans of the quest for growth in the era of globalisation? (An Ansoms)

Panel Organiser: An Ansoms

The era of globalisation brings a new growth-oriented logic and new types of actors to Subsaharan Africa. This panel analyses the competition between ‘large-scalers’ versus ‘local small-scalers’ in a modernised agricultural and mining sector. It analyses the impact of the globalising scramble for natural resources upon local livelihoods.