Artisanal Mining An Economic Stepping Stone For Women

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4 Batrice Labonne, “Artisanal mining: an economic stepping stone for women,” Natural Resources Forum 20 No. 2 (1996): 117-122. 5 Nina Collins and Lynda Lawson, Investigating Approaches to Working with Artisanal and Small-scale Miners: A Compendium of

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impacts of artisanal mining on women and children, the natural resource base, and labor violations to the important economic roles of women in the sector. Prior to the 1990s, the ASM sector was largely viewed as illegitimate and a threat to the more efficient and profitable industrial mining sector. The sparse research on ASM tended to focus on

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Aug 01, 2016 Artisanal mining: An economic stepping stone for women. Article. ... This article on women and artisanal mining is a vignette that underscores all the obstacles to women

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May 26, 2020 However, women are increasingly stepping out of indirect supportive roles and engaging directly in mining (IGF, 2018). Development interventions focused on the legalization of the ASM sector that do not explicitly promote women’s economic empowerment can have the unintended consequence of further excluding women from the economic benefits of

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Women and Artisanal Mining: Gender Roles and the Road Ahead. A hot, dry wind envelopes a statuesque woman as she kneels over wind-sifted trays of tinbearing pulverized ore in Uis, Namibia. In Bolivia, a nine-year old girl scrambles down a steep pit wall yet again to refill her bucket of metal-rich sand. And yet another woman stokes the fire in

Rice, Sapphires and Cattle: Work Lives of Women Artisanal

Artisanal mining of gold has been widely investigated, but that of coloured gemstones has received comparatively less attention. The role of women in gemstone mining has received even less. Strong global demand for coloured gemstones,1 particularly in India and China, has led to a phenomenal expansion of the market in recent years (KPMG 2014)

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Roles of Women in Artisanal ANd Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. This paper has been researched and prepared by Raymundo ... Artisanal Mining and R.A. 7076 c. Objectives, Methodologies, and Research Design II

Not only a man's world: Women's involvement in artisanal

Jun 01, 2014 Abstract. Artisanal mining is a key source of livelihood in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, an area mostly known for its chronic instability and violent conflict. Although men make up the majority of the artisanal mining population, mining is also central in the livelihoods of many girls and women

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in artisanal mining sites in the municipalities of ... Support for youth and women gold miners in the fight against climate change ... stepping stone for people to abandon gold mining with mercury and develop alternative sources of livelihoods. In Mali, for example, gold panning is an ancestral activity, deeply engraved in local culture, which

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Nov 21, 2013 Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining occurs in approximately 80 countries worldwide. There are approximately 100 million artisanal miners globally. Artisanal and small-scale production supply accounts for 80% of global sapphire, 20% of gold mining and up to 20% of diamond mining. It is widespread in developing countries in Africa, Asia, Oceania

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These changes encourage Artisanal miners to see ASM as a stepping stone to other economic activities, rather than a final destination, and to encourage them to upgrade their operation to a higher level of mechanization and increase productivity. More detail can be found in Mining

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By reducing the validity of artisanal mining licences the government hopes to encourage Ethiopians to view artisanal mining as an economic stepping stone, enabling them to save money to start another business, rather than an end in itself

Artisanal mining: an economic stepping stone for women

This article on women and artisanal mining is a vignette that underscores all the obstacles to women's fulfilment. These critical and cross‐sectoral obstacles are, to cite a few, economic exclusion, discrimination in terms of access to land and natural resources, the increasing feminization of poverty and the lack of recognition of women's valuable work

Artisanal mining: An economic stepping stone for women

Labonne (1996) considers such mining constitutes an important economic stepping stone for women, the reason why Bashwira and colleagues (2010) critique the 'protection' of women from apparent

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Women and artisanal mining The Impact Of Extractive Industries Women and Artisanal Mining Previous page. ... B Labonne ASM as Economic Stepping Stone for Women. 1 file(s) 558 KB. Download. E Fisher Social Exclusion in Artisanal Mining Tanzania. 1 file(s) 157 KB. Download

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capabilities into well-being. Artisanal mining is only one micro-industry; however, as Labonne (1996) articulated “(artisanal) mining… may become a stepping stone towards economic fulfillment, contributing to a better future for women and men in many developing countries”. PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN ARTISANAL MINING COMMUNITIES

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Dec 20, 2017 Women and artisanal mining: Gender roles and the road ahead. November 1, 2017. Sustainable Gemstones. Hinton, J., Veiga, M. M., & Beinhoff, C. (2003). Women and artisanal mining: Gender roles and the road ahead. The socio-economic impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining in developing countries, 336099-1 2. Link to Report

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Apr 01, 2020 In addition, it was determined that 1.3% of the country's licensed gold buyers, 50% of its total ASM population, 60% of its small-scale salt mining workforce and 80% of its stone quarrying workforce are women. Some women engaged in ASM appeared to be flourishing, as the legitimate owners of (small-scale mining) companies and concessions

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Mining: An Economic Stepping Stone for Women’(Labonne 1996). It paints a positive view of opportunities for women in ASM, but makes no reference to the specific health and safety issues faced by women on ASM sites. By contrast, in 2003, Heemskerk’s detailed ethnographic study of the Maroon women artisanal miners working in rural Suriname found