ELI-T: Artisanal and small-scale mining in Africa: implications for the agricultural sector

On January 26, the Earth and Life Institute is delighted to welcome Dr. Katharina Krumbiegel for a new ELI-Sustainability Talk. 

The replay of the conference is available here.

Abstract

This seminar will examine current trends in African artisanal and small-scale mining, building on existing literature to present the social, economic, and environmental effects of both directly involved miners and indirectly affected communities. 

A case study from Ghana's cocoa sector will specifically illustrate how small-scale gold mining affects agricultural outcomes. 

By combining representative primary household data from cocoa producers with geo-spatial information on informal mining activities in cocoa-growing regions and applying spatial data analysis, we explore the link between small-scale gold mining and cocoa yield, cocoa revenue and cocoa profit.

The guest

Dr. Katharina Krumbiegel is an agricultural economist, and Scientific Project Officer at Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. 

Katharina Krumbiegel currently works as a Scientific Project Officer on Microeconomics in Africa at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Seville, Spain. She has been working for about 14 years in the field of sustainable rural development - linking research and impact evaluations to policymaking and project implementation. She has held different positions in academia, national development agencies, such as GIZ, and international organisations, such as IFAD. Her work has predominantly focused on vulnerable groups in agri-food systems, such as agricultural workers and small-scale farmers in Africa, South America and Asia. In her current position, she provides research support to the EU-funded Sustainable Cocoa Initiative, an initiative to enhance the economic, social and environmental sustainability of cocoa production in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Cameroon. She holds a doctoral degree in agricultural economics from the University of Göttingen, Germany.

Practical

You are cordially invited to take part in this seminar, to be held on January 26 from 13:00 to 14:00 in Ocean room (B.002, de Serres building, Croix du Sud 2, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). 

A lunch with the guest speaker will be held in the cafeteria of the de Serres building between 12:15 and 13:00 for participants at the ELI-T seminar.

If you would like to attend, please register here. 
Please note that registration is mandatory and essential for us to plan the right amount of food.

The seminar and lunch are free and open to everyone, whether or not you are an ELI member or a UCLouvain member, as long as you are registered. 

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