Section outline
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There are interconnections between extractivism, largescale (mega-)extraction of natural resources such as minerals, oil, or gas, gender-based inequality in resource access and control, conflicting land uses, and stacked resource transactions over the same area. Similarly, gains and liabilities are distributed in socially distinct ways, with companies mostly in the Global North benefiting. Parallel to earlier colonial practices, rural and Indigenous groups in the Global South - particularly women - are disproportionately affected. Find the references and link to briefing paper here.