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Madagascar: A Case Study for Small Scale Mining

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Development, Economics & Business, Environment, Ideas, Science, Technology

The Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) in Protected Areas and critical ecosystems (“PACE”) programme (ASM-PACE) has released a case study [1] on how Madagascar can “ensure continued socioeconomic development without undermining ecological resiliency”. The report focuses on successful and failed methods to cope with mineral rushes.