Of Mining In Rual Livelihood In Ghana
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- Of Mining In Rual Livelihood In Ghana
Rural livelihoods are enhanced through effective participation of rural people and rural communities in the management of their own social, economic and environmental objectives by empowering people in rural areas, particularly women and youth, including through organizations such as local cooperatives and by applying the bottom-up …
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Published by the Ghana Chamber of Mines Ghana Chamber of Mines | #18 Gulf Street, South Legon | P.O. Box 991, Accra, Ghana communications@ghanachamberofmines In the Euro Area, a string of positive economic growth outturns accelerated the Area's recovery from its worst recession in nearly two decades.
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Livelihoods in the Mining Sector of Ghana, 1980-2002. University of Ghana, Legon. Environmental Management and Sustainable Development . ISSN 2164-7682 . 20 21, V ol. 10, No. 4 .
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Displacements and livelihood resilience in Ghana's mining sector: The moderating role of coping behaviour
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Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS) reports as high as 75.9% illiteracy level in rural Savanna (GSS, 2008). Populations with no form of literacy are very limited in their capacity to access climate change information that can serve to empower them to take actions to mitigate, cope or adapt to the impacts of climate change.
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Minerals & Mining Policy of Ghana 2.0 Overview of Ghana's Minerals and Mining Sector Ghana is well endowed with substantial mineral resources, the major ones being gold, diamonds, manganese and bauxite. Gold is the predominant mineral produced in the country accounting for over 90% of all mineral revenues annually over the past two …
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Abstract. This paper critiques the approach being taken in Ghana to implement Alternative Livelihood (AL) projects in mining communities. The rapid insurgence of illegal artisanal gold mining has forced policymakers to think more creatively about ways in which to deal with mounting unemployment in the country's rural areas.
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This article examines the dynamics of rural livelihoods in north-eastern Ghana within the context of a changing environment using evidence from the artisanal …
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Abstract For years, Ghana has been confronted with illegal small-scale mining commonly known as galamsey. It is alleged that cocoa farmers are relinquishing their farmlands for galamsey, however, as many people in the cocoa farming communities depend on cocoa farming as their primary source of income, it raises questions as to why farmers would …
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Livelihoods in Ghana. Africa Portal. No. 49, p 1-8 [13] Boafo, J., Paalo, A. S. and Dotsey, S. (2019). Illicit Chinese . ... Deforestation driven by agriculture, lumbering, mining, infrastructural ...
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Keywords: galamsey, cocoa, Ghana, livelihood, mining INTRODUCTION In almost every rural in Ghana, cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is the most common cash crop cultivated (Nimo et al., 2021). Cocoa provides food, income, 70 employment, industrial raw material, and resources for poverty reduction (Peprah, 2015). ...
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RESEARCH ARTICLE Mining, conflicts and livelihood struggles in a dysfunctional policy environment: the case of Wassa West District, Ghana Joseph Taabazuinga, Isaac Luginaahb*, Godwin Djietrorc ...
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In many mining communities in the developing world, agricultural livelihoods are gradually being lost. These livelihood changes are fueled by emerging foreign investments into the local mining sector; unclear regulatory frameworks and mining laws; as well as perceived compromised regulatory systems currently in operation. With …
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Assessing the Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of Artisanal Gold Mining on the Livelihoods of Communities in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality in Ghana ... Gold mining in Ghana has played a central role in the social, economic and political life of the nation for over 2000 years [2]. However, in recent times, a lot of Ghanaians have become ...
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By examining livelihood strategies and reviewing successive government policies on mining and sustainability, we discovered gaps in the area of policy implementation and systemic marginalization ...
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1. Introduction. In the heartland of Ghana's cocoa (Theobroma cacao) production, there is a profound and intricate interplay between agriculture, particularly cocoa farming, and Illegal Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM).This issue has emerged as a subject of paramount concern. The Amansie West District, nestled within the fertile …
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POVERTY AND LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION: EXPLORING THE LINKAGES BETWEEN SMALLHOLDER FARMING AND ARTISANAL MINING IN RURAL GHANA. Godfried Okoh, Godfried Okoh. School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, The University of Reading, Reading, UK. Search for more papers by this author.
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Mining, Rural Livelihoods and Food Security: A Disaggregated Analysis of Sub- Saharan Africa. June 2019; Authors: Tim Wegenast. ... Mining in Ghana', The Economic Journal 1 26(597), ...
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mining in Ghana, drawing from the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (DfID 2001) and the RCH (Sachs and Warner 1995) to assess the impacts of the rise. The research argues that illegal small-scale mining creates vulnerability in mining communities as a result of destruction in some of the capital assets upon which people derive their means of ...
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Discourses on "illegal" or informal small-scale mining ( galamsey) have presented it largely as a menace. Using Ghana as the focus of our study, we present a …
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The cocoa industry supports the livelihoods of around 6.3 million producers in Ghana, with 2 million of them being smallholder farmers who produce the cocoa [14]. The majority of …
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As a means to addressing the disastrous consequences of illegal small scale mining, also known as galamsey, on the environment in many mining communities in the country, the Government of Ghana has implemented the Alternative Livelihood Project (ALP) to offer alternative livelihoods for illegal small scale miners and combat illegal small-scale …
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Growth in industrial iron ore mining footprint reduced farming livelihood (- 48%) within the mining concession area, generated several lakes and ponds which polluted fertile swamplands outside the ...
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The fact that the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector in Ghana is driven largely by poverty means that the sector is a major source of livelihood for people in mining communities across ...
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"Women's livelihoods, global markets and citizenship." IDS Working Papers 2009.336 (2009): 01–36. 2 Robert Chambers, and Gordon Conway. Sustainable rural livelihoods: practical concepts for the 21 st century. Institute of Development Studies (UK) (1992). 3 FAO. Employment indicators 2000–2019.
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Abstract This paper critiques the approach being taken in Ghana to implement Alternative Livelihood (AL) projects in mining communities. The rapid insurgence of illegal artisanal gold mining has forced policymakers to think more creatively about ways in which to deal with mounting unemployment in the country's rural areas. …
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Recognition of the importance of land access in mining resettlement communities in the context of sustainable development discourse in many African countries has not necessarily been translated into practice. This paper describes the livelihood challenges and sustainable development implications of a mining-induced …
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– The bittersweet impacts of the mining industry on rural livelihoods in China" by Qing Zhao et al. ... Artisanal small-scale mining and livelihood assets in rural southern Ghana. Vasco Baffour-Kyei A. Mensah Victor Owusu G. A. Horlu. Environmental Science, Sociology. 2021; 19. Save.
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This study examined the labour dynamics, opportunities, challenges, and sustainability of coconut oil (VCO) processing businesses in the wake of coconut …
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Gold mining has played an important role in Ghana's economy, however the negative environmental and socio-economic effects on the host communities associated with gold mining have …
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For instance, Ghana's mining sector attracts over 50% of all Foreign Direct Investments, accounts for approximately 33% of all revenues and 43% of total merchandise exports, and contributes ...
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DOI: 10.1016/J.RESOURPOL.2019.101431 Corpus ID: 198703659; Analysis of livelihood issues in resettlement mining communities in Ghana @article{Korah2019AnalysisOL, title={Analysis of livelihood issues in resettlement mining communities in Ghana}, author={Prosper Issahaku Korah and Abraham Marshall Nunbogu and Patrick Brandful …
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2.1: MINING IN GHANA Ghana's geological landscape teems with a variety of minerals with the commercially exploited ones being gold, diamond, manganese and bauxite. In 2020, gold accounted for 97.2 per cent of gross mineral revenue while the respective shares of manganese, bauxite and diamond were 2.25 per cent, 0.54 per cent and 0.01 per cent.
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The study determines the effects of mining on rural livelihoods, adopted strategies and the role of stakeholder and regulatory institutions. The study achieves this by investigating the status of key rural livelihood indicators, what influence the choice of livelihood strategies in mining communities and the assessment of institutional performance.
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switch from farming to illicit mining as a livelihood option. Large-scale mining companies typically disregard areas within their concession that they do not con-sidereconomicallyviabletomine,and,inmanycases,artisanal minersgainaccess to these through incessant agitations and running battles with those companies.
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The study determines the effects of mining on rural livelihoods, adopted strategies and the role of stakeholder and regulatory institutions. ... (ASM) and livelihood in Prestea mining region, Ghana. A cross-sectional mixed method survey involving simple random and purposively sampled participants (𝑁 = 151) was carried out. The results ...
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