Customary governance of artisanal and small-scale mining in Guinea: Social and environmental practices and outcomes?

In Guinea, attempts are underway by international donors, development practitioners, and the national government to bring artisanal small-scale diamond mining in line with a formal regulation parcel allocation system. This formalization initiative Guinea—along similar reforms aimed at land tenure regularization across Africa—attempt superimpose modern legal institutions onto community institutions. Artisanal (ASM) Guinea’s Forécariah Kindia regions is currently governed customary governance structures deeply rooted for property rights management. Thus far, have failed replace or integrate Identifying how achieve complementarity between informal systems that defined deep cultural structural tensions requires solid understanding of (Ensminger, 1997). paper analyzes social environmental practices ASM outcomes an area history strong governance. The study has three research objectives. First, seeks provide deeper governing regions. Second, draws on empirical analysis village level quantitative qualitative data identify whether institutional factors affect context ASM. Based these findings, closes concrete policy recommendations promoting greater systems. Given scale scope sources applied analysis, this utilizes most comprehensive to-date context. As such, presents unique contribution literature around governance, resource contestations, communities sector sub-Saharan Africa.