Small-scale Mining, Rural Subsistence, and Poverty in West Africa

Abstract

FOREWORD by Ian Smillie, Partnership Africa Canada, Ottawa Introduction: Resuscitating the Policy and Research Agendas for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining 1. Section 1: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in West Africa - An Overview of the Issue 2. Poverty and Economic Development in West Africa: An Historical Analysis 3. Poverty and Artisanal Mining in West Africa 4. Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in West Africa: An Overview of Sustainable Development and Environmental Issues 5. Mercury: An Agent of Poverty in West Africa's Small-Scale Gold Mining Industry 6. Fostering cooperation between small- and large-scale gold miners in West Africa 7. Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in West Africa: Achieving Sustainable Development through Environmental and Human Rights Law 8. Section 2: Country Case Studies - Francophone West Africa 9. Artisanal Mining in Mali: An Overview of the Issues 10. Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mines in Burkina Faso: Today and Tomorrow 11. Artisanal Gold Mining in Burkina Faso: Permits, Poverty and Perceptions of the Poor in Sanmatenga, The 'Land of Gold' 12. Artisanal Gold-Mining in Northern Benin: A Socio-Cultural Perspective 13. Section 3: Country Case Studies - Anglophone West Africa 14. Diamonds, poverty and war in Sierra Leone 15. Reflections on the Political Economy of Artisanal Diamond Mining in Kono District, Sierra Leone 16. Integrative Perspectives on Diamond Mining and Public Health in Akwatia, Ghana 17. Socio-Economic, Environmental and Policy Implications of Alluvial Diamond Mining in the Birim 18. 'Live and Let's Live' - The Relationship between Artisanal/Small-Scale and Large-scale miners in Ghana: The Abosso Goldfields' Experience 19. Strained relations: a critical assessment of the mining conflict in Prestea, Ghana 20. Addressing the Environmental Challenges of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Nigeria Postscript: Progress on the Horizon?