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Title:Mining investment & community struggles
Author:Owusu-Koranteng, DanielISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:35
Issue:117
Pages:467-473
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:land rights
multinational enterprises
mining companies
NGO
gold mining
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240802411115
Abstract:Mineral-endowed countries such as Ghana have been successful in attracting foreign direct investment to the mineral sector through liberalization of mining codes, which provide generous concessions to foreign multinational mining companies. However, the compulsory acquisition by private mining companies of large tracts of indigenous lands for surface mining operations has unleashed many land use conflicts. The Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM) in the Tarkwa Area of Ghana is a community-based human rights and environmental mining advocacy NGO working to build the capacity of mining communities to have effective engagement with multinational mining companies. The author of this briefing is one of the founders of WACAM. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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