Artisanal small-scale mining and livelihood assets in rural southern Ghana

Baffour-Kyei, Vasco; Mensah, Amos; Owusu, Victor; Horlu, Godwin Seyram Agbemavor

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.101988

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“…The qualitative data from the focus group discussions and key informant interviews as well as non-participant observations made on the field were recorded with smartphones, transcribed, coded, and put into various themes with respect to the study objective. The transcripts were exported into NVivo 9 qualitative data analysis software and analysed on the basis of the major themes and content analysis (Baffour-Kyei et al, 2021;Lamptey, 2021). The outcome of the qualitative data analysis was carefully incorporated into the quantitative data, consistent with Owusu et al (2021).…”

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Channels and Methods of Communicating Agricultural Innovations to rice farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana

Lamptey,

Donkoh,

Azumah

et al. 2024

GJSTD

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Rice Farmers in Ghana have benefited from technology dissemination programmes of high-yielding crop varieties to enhance their productivity and increase their incomes. The interventions in the rice sector of Ghana have led to a reduction in poverty, and reduced rice importation into the country. Despite the expected gains from the numerous interventions, there are low levels of adoption of improved rice varieties among many farmers in Ghana, partly due to ineffectiveness of the technology dissemination methods. This study examines rice farmers’ perception of the agricultural innovation communication channels and methods used to promote improved rice varieties in northern Ghana. Primary data was randomly collected (through survey, focus group discussions and key informant interviews) from 404 rice farmers and analyzed by percentages, means, standard deviations and explanations. The farmers perceived the innovation communication channels and methods that mostly helped them to adopt improved rice varieties as the effective ones. The empirical results show that fellow farmers, researchers and extension agents, and radio were perceived to be the most effective channels of innovation communication among the rice farmers. Farm and home visits, and demonstration farms, and radio broadcasts were also considered to be the most effective innovation dissemination methods used to promote improved rice varieties in the region. It is therefore necessary that young farmers are targeted through a combination of individual, group and mass media methods, for enhancing innovation dissemination and uptake. We recommend that the Government of Ghana allocates adequate resources to make agricultural extension delivery more effective and reliable.

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Channels and Methods of Communicating Agricultural Innovations to rice farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana

Lamptey,

Donkoh,

Azumah

et al. 2024

GJSTD

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“…Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Artisanal mining was rst described as a "poverty-driven activity" employing others who do not have jobs at the World Bank's International Roundtable on Artisanal Mining held in Washington, DC in May 1995 87 . In recent decades, this activity, characterized as "low-skilled, labor-intensive mineral extraction and processing," has grown exponentially in the developing world, attracting tens of millions of direct participants and creating hundreds of millions of income-generating opportunities in a range of upstream and downstream industries that have now taken root in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America in countless rural and peri-urban areas, playing an important role in sustaining the livelihoods of people in poor areas, but the livelihood issues and impacts of artisanal mining on rural communities remain much studied and debated in detail, and more research is needed to underpin the bene ts of the trade-offs.…”

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Unveiling the Past, Current and Future of Global Sustainable Livelihoods Research by Visual and Quantitative Analysis

Li¹,

Cui²,

Singh³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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Sustainable Livelihoods (SLs) is now a high-priority field in global environmental change research, becoming one of the key research paradigms in sustainability science increasingly and an important component of the Sustainable Development Goals. A Scientometrics analysis based on Science Citation Index-Expanded was performed to understand the research trends and areas in SLs studies. A total of 6441 papers related to SLs studies and 265, 759 references published from 1991 to 2020 were selected as the research objects. Using advanced quantitative analysis tools such as CiteSpace and VOSviewer, we quantify and visualize the characteristics and evolution of the literature in the field of SLs research, to clarify the historical research characteristics, knowledge base, and future research trends. The results show that the annual number of documents increased exponentially since 1991. Ecological sciences and ecology were the most popular Web of Science research areas. The institution with the greatest research documents and most citations was the CGIAR. The most influential journal is Word Development. Singh R.K., Shackleton C.M., was the most productive author. Six clusters of research areas were determined by keyword co-occurrence analysis. The results of the evolution of research hotspots show that the four tags currently still active. We also detected 11 directions of SLs research studies based on the keywords’ score relevance, which has allowed the iden-tification of future lines of research with more importance. These results can help related researchers better understand the past current and future of SLs research studies, which is significant for achieving livelihoods sustainability.

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“…The unorganized informal mining sector known as artisanal mining has today increased the environmental effects of mining [44]. The minerals are extracted using localized, affordable, and simple-to-use instruments and equipment in artisanal mining [45]. Most of this country's poorest regions engage in this illegal mining sector, which typically operates outside its legal and regulatory framework [46,47].…”

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Comparative Assessment of Seasonal Variations in the Quality of Surface Water and Its Associated Health Hazards in Gold Mining Areas of Osun State, South-West Nigeria

Awogbami¹,

Solomon²,

Sawyerr³

et al. 2023

Adv Environ Eng Res

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Industrial and urban development are contributing to an increase in global environmental degradation. Therefore, the release of heavy metals from mining-related operations into surface water is harmful to human health. But as anthropogenic influences on the environment grow, surface water characteristics are also alter, impacting aquatic creatures. In order to analyze the acceptability of the surface water in the gold mining area for drinking and irrigation uses, different quality water assessment methodologies were incorporated in this research. In light of this, the purpose of the current study is to comprehend how the hydrogeochemistry and appropriateness of surface water for drinking and irrigation vary every month. The study employed standardized analytical techniques. According to APHA recommendations, all sampling, conservation, transportation, and analysis were completed (2012). All collected samples were transported to the study lab while being kept in an icebox to prevent the degradation of the organic components. As a result, the study is focused on the contamination level in the surface water for a year. Overall, the study highlights important pollutants impacting surface water quality as it passes through Osun State's gold mining regions. Finally, it has been determined that the following criteria are crucial for the stretch of this research season: DO, Hardness, Turbidity, Chloride, Potassium, Nitrate, Lead, TSS, Cadmium, Chromium, Sulphate, Manganese, Mercury, and Arsenic. Most of the physicochemical variables examined in this study fell within their corresponding standard limits. Based on the results of this study, the appropriate constituted authority is encouraged to continuously monitor and assess surface water quality suitability for drinking, domestic, and irrigation purposes by keeping track of the effects of water contaminants and detecting any changes in the water quality. To safeguard and maintain groundwater quality and public health, it is advised that appropriate regulatory policies and water treatment procedures be employed in the area. Additionally, it is proposed that when enhancing water quality and investigating the sustainable use of water resources, surface water pollution should be taken into consideration.

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Artisanal small-scale mining and livelihood assets in rural southern Ghana

Cited by 24 publications

References 59 publications

Channels and Methods of Communicating Agricultural Innovations to rice farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana

Channels and Methods of Communicating Agricultural Innovations to rice farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana

Unveiling the Past, Current and Future of Global Sustainable Livelihoods Research by Visual and Quantitative Analysis

Comparative Assessment of Seasonal Variations in the Quality of Surface Water and Its Associated Health Hazards in Gold Mining Areas of Osun State, South-West Nigeria

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