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‘Once a miner, always a miner’: Poverty and livelihood diversification in Akwatia, Ghana
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In this paper, an alternative viewpoint on why people choose to engage in artisanal mining for extended periods in sub-Saharan Africa is presented, drawing upon experiences from Akwatia, Ghana's epicentre of diamond production since the mid-1920s.About:
This article is published in Journal of Rural Studies.The article was published on 2010-07-01. It has received 165 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Artisanal mining.read more
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Poverty alleviation in rural Malawi: is there a role for artisanal mining?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a formalized and supported artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector could alleviate significant poverty in rural Malawi, and question the efficacy of the government's decision to continue promoting a "farm first" strategy to address the country's poverty problem, given the limited capacity of smallholder agriculture to alleviate rural hardship on its own.
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‘Sustainable Mining’? Corporate Social Responsibility, Migration and Livelihood Choices in Zambia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine mining activities in northern Zambia's emerald mines to highlight some of the issues and barriers to sustainable development that exist across mining zones and conclude that livelihood choices are not augmented by a so-called sustainable mining approach that fails to engage all sectors of the population.
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Where There Is No Company: Indigenous Peoples, Sustainability, and the Challenges of Mid-Stream Mining Reforms in Guyana's Small-Scale Gold Sector
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of mining reforms on multiple scales and a case study of the gold sector in the Upper Mazaruni river basin, the traditional homeland of the indigenous Akawaio and Arekuna.
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The political economy of technology adoption: The case of Saharan salt mining
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply existing theories of non-adoption to a case study, salt mining in the Sahara Desert, in order to generate new insights into barriers to technology adoption, finding that political organization establishes an environment for the formation of higher-order economic organizations, which in turn affect the direction and rate of technology adoption.
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'You have hands, make use of them!' Child labour in artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania.
TL;DR: This paper examined child labour in artisanal mining through ethnographic research in Tanzania and found that the encounter of traditional cultural practices with mining's culture of consumption exacerbates household fragmentation, which in turn increases child poverty and labour.
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The Scramble in Africa: Reorienting Rural Livelihoods
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Deagrarianization and Rural Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Sectoral Perspective
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Determinants and effects of income diversification amongst farm households in Burkina Faso
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