Working with legal small‐scale miners: Implications for development

Gabriel Botchwey, Michael Nest and Riccardo D'Emidio

Journal of International Development, 2023, vol. 35, issue 6, 1239-1253

Abstract: Development initiatives focused on illegal artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM) typically assume that formalisation will address environmental degradation and poverty. But there is little research on legal small‐scale miners' (SSMs) perceptions of their environmental impacts, or on demographic characteristics that should inform development programmes. Based on a survey of 137 legal SSMs, this study analysed the perceptions and practices of legal SSMs within the context of an accountability, rule of law and anti‐corruption programme, with an environmental governance subtheme, in Ghana. Data suggest that formalisation may not be a panacea for improving environmental governance, findings with policy and practical implications for development programmes.

Date: 2023
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