The artisanal movement is huge.

The Impact on Small Scale Artisanal Fishing

This cell phone started its trajectory in an artisanal mine in the Eastern Congo.

Further information was requested, particularly relating to artisanal production and small scale zinc and copper operations.

Reports of declining, small scale, near shore artisanal fisheries throughout the Pacific are on the rise.

Fisheries, including artisanal, or small scale fisheries, contribute significantly to poverty alleviation, food security and economic growth.

Several delegations highlighted the difficulties in the use of the terminology of small scale and artisanal fisheries.

Some delegations stressed the need for the involvement of small scale and artisanal fishers in decision making.

The ongoing global project for the removal of barriers to the introduction of cleaner artisanal gold mining and extraction technologies will demonstrate ways of overcoming barriers to the adoption of best practices and pollution prevention measures that limit the mercury contamination of international waters from artisanal and small scale gold mining.

Assisting the artisanal and small scale gold mining sector to minimize the discharge of highly poisonous mercury used in gold extraction

13. Notes with appreciation the efforts of the Working Group of the Kimberley Process of Artisanal Alluvial Producers, under the leadership of Angola, to analyse internal controls and the challenges faced by each country with respect to its artisanal alluvial diamond production, and plans to spread best practices and improve community involvement through a programme of field visits

Heparin a blood thinner, a pharmaceutical product starts out in artisanal workshops like this in China, because the active ingredient comes from pigs' intestines.

Increased emphasis will be given to the development of rural and artisanal clusters, and to promoting twinning relationships between existing clusters in developed and developing countries.

Fisheries, both commercial and artisanal, are a major contributor in many States to economic development, food security and the cultural and social well being of their people.

The group noted that inclusion in the guidelines of more text on artisanal production would reflect the needs of developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

So Hannah's artisanal work, and the fact that she shared her findings, opens the doors to a series of new possibilities that are both aesthetically appealing and innovative.

In Burkina Faso, a project launched in 2002 to reduce poverty by developing the production and marketing capacity of the artisanal cotton textile sector continued to be implemented.

A presentation was made to the Plenary on the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), an independent initiative aimed at improving the working conditions of, and remuneration to artisanal diamond miners.

Discussions in the contact group on thermal processes in the metallurgical industry revolved around four main themes artisanal production, achievable performance levels, intersessional work and the need for further information.

Longlining threatens the survival of artisanal and subsistence fishing communities, large predatory fish stocks, sea turtles, marine mammals and sea birds to provide seafood that is too dangerous to eat.

The Group was not in a position to verify whether the gold exploration preceding those exports, whether artisanal or industrialized, was conducted with proper licensing or conformed to international labour law standards.

In Chile, artisanal fisheries received only 2 percent of the quota in the horse mackerel fishery, too little to maintain current fishing effort when individual non transferable quotas were created in 2001.

Sustainable use MPAs are defined as allowing uses such as small scale artisanal fishing, recreational fishing, wildlife viewing, diving and snorkelling for example as long as they have minimal impact on the marine environment.

Today, the depletion of ocean fisheries is so significant that effectively it is effecting the ability of the poor, the artisanal fisher folk and those who fish for their own livelihoods, to feed their families.

A recent investigation has found that pelagic longline fishing may be contributing to the depletion of local fish stocks, thereby threatening the food security of coastal communities primarily served by small scale artisanal fishermen and women.

The contact group on textile and leather dyeing considered that additional text was needed on artisanal activities and monitoring, and more information was sought on treatment of sludges in the wool industry and safer alternatives to pentachlorophenol.

The impact on local artisanal fishermen and women is nowhere better illustrated than in the Western and Central Pacific where an estimated 10 percent of the total tuna catch is taken by vessels based in the region.

Create a Pacific wide network of Marine Protected Areas on the high seas that allow sustainable artisanal and recreational fishing and tourism along known migratory, feeding and nesting habitats of threatened and endangered marine species Support sustainable small scale fishing

Industrial longline fishing also threatens the jobs, and in some cases the nutritional subsistence, of artisanal, subsistence and other small scale fishers, who represent 90 percent of the world's fishermen and women, and who are responsible for almost 50 percent of total world landings.

The UN Secretary General's report on oceans and the law of the sea and fisheries (A 60 63) identified a series of threats posed by foreign industrial fishing to small scale near shore artisanal fisheries in its discussion of fisheries and their contribution to sustainable development.

The government can, say, impose zoning regulations, help small retailers find nbsp specialized niches in the market, or provide skills training to displaced workers. The survival of artisanal retailers should not be used as an excuse to introduce or uphold business regulations that ultimately protect the incumbent rich.

The third panel segment was devoted to small scale and artisanal fishing and was launched by Fabio Hazin, Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil, and Sidi El Moctar Ould Mohamed Abdallahi, Head of Coastal Fisheries Development, Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Economy, Mauritania.

Outputs Community households equipped with adequate arsenic filtering equipment Artisanal gold mining communities trained and equipped with technologies to reduce health and environment exposure to mercury Reduced use of mercury by small scale gold miners and more sustainable use of the remaining amounts Information, materials, books, brochures, web pages published advisory services provided and training programmes implemented.

14. Welcomes the strengthening of the South American subgroup of Artisanal Alluvial Producers, and its intention to meet to discuss regional cooperation on the challenges faced in controlling diamond production and trade, and also welcomes the invitation extended by Venezuela for a visit led by the Chair of the Kimberley Process to take place during the first quarter of 2008

Urges States to eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and to fishing overcapacity, while completing the efforts undertaken at the World Trade Organization in accordance with the Doha Declaration to clarify and improve its disciplines on fisheries subsidies, taking into account the importance of this sector, including small scale and artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, to developing countries