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Globally, unsustainable economic development and the run on natural resources put communities dependent on these resources under immense pressure. It is widely acknowledged that large-scale dams, mines and land conversion projects frequently force people off their lands and cause huge environmental damage. What is still insufficiently recognised, however, is that women suffer disproportionally from the negative impacts of these large-scale development projects.