Waste composting for urban and peri-urban agriculture : closing the rural-urban nutrient cycle in sub-Saharan Africa /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, with International Water Management Institute, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001.
• Subjects: Compost > Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Soil Fertility.; Fertilizers and other Amendments.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Human Wastes and Refuse.; Composting.; Composts.; Cycling.; Organic amendments.; Organic wastes.; Soil amendments.; Soil fertility.; Urban areas.; Waste management.; Waste utilization.; Electronic books.
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Rapid urbanization has created a major challenge with regard to waste management and environmental protection. However, the problem can be ameliorated by turning organic waste into compost for use as an agricultural fertilizer in urban and peri-urban areas. This is especially significant in less dev...

Table of Contents:

• The Potential Use of Waste-stream Products for Soil Amelioration in Peri-urban Interface Agricultural Production Systems / P.J.C. Harris, M. Allison, G. Smith, H.M. Kindness and J. Kelley
• Economic, Sociocultural and Environmental Considerations
• Turning Urban Waste into Fertilizer for Urban and Periurban Farmers : Case Studies from East and West Africa
• Modelling Urban and Peri-urban Biomass and Nutrient Flows
• Urban Agriculture : International Support and Capacity Building in Africa / C.J. Sawio, L. Spies and D. Doucouré
• Research and Development Priorities / P. Drechsel and D. Kunze.