Ghana

Contaminated Identities: Mercury and marginalisation in Ghana’s artisanal mining sectorGeoforum

A Report on Kayayei in Ghana

Informal Institutions and Personal Rule in Urban GhanaAfrican Studies Review

Abstract: Contrary to expectations of modern democratic development, the establishment of liberal-democratic institutions in Ghana has not...

Forces for Change: Informal Economy Organisations in Africa

Health and Sanitation is an Economic Right as Well–Just Ask Ghanaian Food Sellers

WIEGO Researcher Laura Alfers investigates the chop bar owners of Accra. Whereas governments are quick to scapegoat them for diseases borne...

A Report on Street Vending in Ghana

Overview of regulatory issues concerning street vendors in Ghana

The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries’ realities for improved managementAfrican Review of Economics and Finance

Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance: E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management...

Divine Chocolate

From the website: Divine is the only fairtrade chocolate company which is owned by its cocoa farmers.While Fairtrade ensures farmers receive...

IIED Newsletter: Artisanal and small-scale mining, January 23, 2017

This newsletter from the International Institute for Environment and Development includes information about IIED’s artisanal and small-scale...

VIDEO: Kayayei March – Accra, December 2016

This is a video of an appreciation march by Kayayei’s on the promise that was made to them by the NPP (New Patriotic Party) to abolish...