Empower chiefs, youth with Incentives to win galamsey battle – Centre for Climate Change and Food Security

A leading climate advocacy group is urging the government to ditch its heavy-handed approach to illegal mining and instead empower local communities with a “reward-for-results” system that trades environmental protection for tangible development projects.

The Centre for Climate Change and Food Security (CCCFS) argues that the long-running fight against galamsey, often reliant on military taskforces and arrests, has failed because it excludes the very people most affected by the destruction.

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