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Mineral exhaustion and its livelihood implications for artisanal and small-scale miners

open access: yes, 2021
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a vital livelihood practice around the world, especially in the Global South. In Tanzania, millions of people depend on artisanal and small-scale gold mining and many of these people are in Geita, the main gold ...
Anna Frohn Pedersen   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Artisanal Brazilian Cheeses—History, Marketing, Technological and Microbiological Aspects

open access: yesFoods, 2021
This review focused on the historical, marketing, technological, and microbiological characteristics of artisanal Brazilian cheese. Brazilian cheese production was introduced and developed from the influence of immigrants considering the combination of ...
A. Penna, M. L. Gigante, S. Todorov
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

In vitro establishment and oxidation control of nodal segments of Arrabidaea chica Verlot

open access: yesTemas Agrarios
Arrabidaea chica belongs to the Bignoniaceae family, popularly known as Bija or “Tooth cleaner”. It is one of the most used dyeing plants in the artisanal industry of the Colombian Caribbean region.
Javier Darío Beltrán Herrera   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Large and artisanal scale mine development: The case for autonomous co-existence

open access: yes, 2020
This article contributes to the debate on conflicts between artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – low-tech, labour-intensive mineral extraction and processing – and capital-intensive large-scale mineral extraction in developing countries. It critiques
G. Hilson, Titus Sauerwein, J. Owen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
wiley   +1 more source

Artisanal materials for sustainable construction in developing countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Sustainable construction is a major challenge to developing countries more so when it comes to the use of artisanal materials in the construction process.
Blyth, A., K'Akumu, O.A., Jones, B.
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli's De Hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina (1761): Mercury Mining, Mercurialism, and Preventive Reasoning in Eighteenth‐Century Occupational Medicine

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), a physician‐naturalist of the Enlightenment, is primarily remembered for his contributions to botany and entomology. Less attention has been paid to his medical work De hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina physico‐chymico‐medica (1761), written during his fifteen years of service as physician at the mercury mines
Alberto Zanatta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The gold digger and the machine. Evidence on the distributive effect of the artisanal and industrial gold rushes in Burkina Faso

open access: yesJournal of Development Economics, 2020
This paper uses a quasi-natural experiment, the recent gold boom in Burkina Faso, to document the local impact of two alternative mining techniques: artisanal and industrial mining. Artisanal mines have a bad reputation. When these mines (labor intensive
R. Bazillier, Victoire Girard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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