Non-farm Income Diversification in Rural Ghana: Patterns and Determinants

POVERTY AND LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION:

POVERTY AND LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION: EXPLORING THE LINKAGES BETWEEN SMALLHOLDER FARMING AND ARTISANAL MINING IN RURAL GHANA

✍ Godfried Okoh; Gavin Hilson 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 163 KB

## Abstract This article draws attention to the importance of promoting and regularizing artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM)—low‐tech, labour‐intensive mineral extraction and processing activity—in sub‐Saharan Africa, focusing on the case of Ghana. An estimated one million people are employed di