Banda, AnnabelNcube, Mthuthukisi2024-04-232024-04-232024-03Banda, A. & Ncube, M. M. (2024). Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques for Intertwined Artisanal Mining-Communal Farming Conflict. In J. Garwi, R. Masengu, & O. Chiwaridzo (Eds.), Sustainable Practices for Agriculture and Marketing Convergence (pp. 226-250). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-2011-2.ch010DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-2011-2.ch010http://ir.gsu.ac.zw:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/352The chapter discusses challenges of artisanal mining (AM), a nature-based livelihood strategy, in promoting sustainable agricultural practices. It highlights how AM competes for biodiversity and ecosystem services and causes environmental damage and a shift from traditional sustainable agricultural practices land-use tenure to uncontrolled itinerant AM. Methodologically, the chapter reviewed secondary systematic-literature review (SLR) of articles articulating the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques. These include facilitated mediation, negotiation, and arbitration that yield land-use zoning agreements (conciliation) to attain synergy and market convergencies. It recommends transforming negative-synergy and implementing zoning strategies that prevent land-use conflicts, conserve biodiversity, and extricate competing AM from communal farming to attain sustainability. The resultant, unbridled development would protect ecosystem-service producing biodiversity, converge AM-agricultural markets and sustainably, leading to sustainable agricultural growth and conservation.enBook chapter