Since its advent at the end of nineteenth century, cyanide processing facilitated intensification and global expansion industrial gold mining. Today, there are important indications that artisanal small-scale mining (ASGM) is on verge a similar revolution: while ASGM typically associated with mercury-based processing, mercury amalgamation increasingly replaced with, or complemented by, cyanidat...

This article argues that adopting a gender perspective when regulating artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is both necessary achievable. The authors analyse women’s often-ignored needs experiences as workers, decision-makers affected community members in the ASM sector. To address these concerns, this sets out standards for to guarantee access services information decision-making representat...

No-take Marine Protected Areas (Nt-MPAs) constitute an indispensable tool for biodiversity conservation. Nevertheless, there are other instruments such as marine coastal co-management policy frameworks which may be also considered as tools for conservation or as ancillary conservation instruments. Using focus groups, semi-structured interviews and survey questionnaires we analysed small-scale a...

Mining environmental liabilities (MEL) are of great concern because potential risks to ecosystems and human health. In this research, the risk (RI) related MEL existing in three artisanal small-scale gold-mining areas Ecuador was evaluated. For purpose, data 167 including landfills, mining galleries, tailing deposits, mineral processing plants from Macuchi, Tenguel–Ponce Enriquez, Puyango areas...

Cheap licit and artisanal illicit spirit drinks have been associated with numerous outbreaks of alcohol poisoning especially with methanol. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of cheap spirit drinks in Kibera slums in Nairobi County, Kenya. The samples consisted of cheap licit spirits (n = 11) and the artisanal spirit drink, 'chang'aa', (n = 28). The parameters of alcoholic strength and vo...

Artisanal cheeses traditionally produced from raw milk have a diverse microbiota and, due the varied changes that occur in this type of food matrix during the maturation, pathogens detection’s may be impaired. In this study, the conventional method established by ISO 6579:2005 to evaluate the presence of Salmonella was compared with two alternative rapid methods, PCR-BAX (DuPont) and VIDAS-SLM ...