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This review examines health issues around human/social determinants of health within artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM). The focus is on working children and violence. Within the area of violence, the collection of health risks is broad, ranging from
Franklin W. Schwartz +2 more
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Some of the poorest people in the world's poorest countries eke out a living in artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM). Equipped with primitive tools like picks, shovels, buckets, and gold pans, they work mining valuable resources, like gold, diamonds ...
F. Schwartz, Sangsuk Lee, T. Darrah
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Artisanal, a term used to describe production systems that are relatively small-scale and where hand-working and the skilled, intuitive judgment of the maker takes precedence over mechanized and automated methods.
Blundel, Richard
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A Cross-Sectional Survey on Knowledge and Perceptions of Health Risks Associated with Arsenic and Mercury Contamination from Artisanal Gold mining in Tanzania. [PDF]
An estimated 0.5 to 1.5 million informal miners, of whom 30-50% are women, rely on artisanal mining for their livelihood in Tanzania. Mercury, used in the processing gold ore, and arsenic, which is a constituent of some ores, are common occupational ...
Charles, Elias +17 more
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Profile and Motivations of Artisanal Beverage Tourists to the Free State Province, South Africa [PDF]
An increase in South African domestic tourism could potentially be realised through offering locals easily accessible and affordable tourist products. Niche tourism may present this opportunity.
Eben Proos
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Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) activities continue to grow in many resource-endowed countries with ASM-generated revenues serving as a precursor to socio-economic growth especially in mineral-rich rural communities.
G. Ofosu +3 more
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Fisherfolks’ Perception on Artisanal Fishing Enterprise in North Central, Nigeria
The study identified the fisherfolks’ perception of artisanal fishing enterprises in North-Central, Nigeria. Information were collected with the use of questionnaire and analysed using frequency count, percentage, mean score and Pearson Product Moment
John Oluwaseun Ifabiyi +1 more
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Characteristics of the shark fisheries of Fiji [PDF]
Limited information is available on artisanal and subsistence shark fisheries across the Pacific. The aim of this study was to investigate Fiji’s inshore fisheries which catch sharks.
Adrian-Kalchhauser, I. +4 more
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Context and background Artisanal mining has long been integral part of livelihood structure and economic systems of certain rural communities. Artisanal mining operates informally in developing countries coupled with social, environmental, and economic ...
George Odhiambo Konguka
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Microorganisms present in artisanal fermented food from South America
Artisanal fermented products (foods and beverages) are produced in an artisanal way in many countries around the world. The main purpose of fermentation is to preserve the food, improve its safety, increase the nutritional and health-promoting value and ...
María Eugenia Jiménez +3 more
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