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1 Amoah, Philip. 2008. Wastewater irrigated vegetable production: contamination pathway for health risk reduction in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale, Ghana. Thesis submitted to the Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Science. 202p.
Wastewater irrigation ; Water quality ; Vegetables ; Lettuces ; Contamination ; Risks ; Pathogens ; Public health ; Agricultural workers ; Diseases ; Health hazards ; Risk management ; Biological analysis ; Coliform bacteria ; Helminths ; Soils ; Analytical methods ; Pesticides ; Irrigation practices / Ghana / Accra / Kumasi / Tamale
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.5 G200 AMO Record No: H041491)
2 Buechler, S. 2009. Gender, water, and climate change in Sonora, Mexico: implications for policies and programmes on agricultural income-generation. Gender and Development, 17(1):51-66.
Gender ; Agricultural workers ; Women ; Climate change ; Water scarcity ; Food production ; Employment ; Social aspects / Mexico / USA / Sonora / Arizona / New Mexico
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 8022 Record No: H041931)
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3 Lanjouw, P.; Murgai, R. 2009. Poverty decline, agricultural wages, and nonfarm employment in rural India: 1983–2004. Agricultural Economics, 40:243-263.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H041957)
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4 Rajeswari, N. 2008. Irrigation, employment and agricultural wages: a study of inter-linkages in Coimbatore and Erode districts of Tamil Nadu. Thesis. PhD thesis submitted to the University of Bharathiar, India.
Agricultural workers ; Labor ; Wages ; Irrigated farming ; Social aspects / India / Coimbatore / Tamil Nadu
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: D 630.92 G635 RAJ Record No: H043637)
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5 World Bank; FAO; IFAD. 2009. Gender in agriculture: sourcebook. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 764p.
Agricultural workers ; Women's participation ; Women in development ; Gender ; Rural finance ; Developing countries
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043726)
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6 Dittoh, S.; Snyder, K. A.; Lefore, Nicole. 2015. Gender policies and implementation in agriculture, natural resources and poverty reduction: case study of Ghana’s Upper East Region. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 22p. (WLE Research for Development (R4D) Learning Series 3) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2015.205]
Gender ; Women ; Equity ; Agricultural policy ; Policy making ; Agricultural workers ; Agricultural production ; Natural resources ; Poverty ; Funding ; Socioeconomic environment ; Civil society organizations ; Local communities ; Households ; Resource allocation ; Case studies / Ghana / Bawku West / Bongo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047003)
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7 Burt, Z.; Prasad, C. S. S.; Drechsel, Pay; Ray, I. 2021. The cultural economy of human waste reuse: perspectives from peri-urban Karnataka, India. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 11(3):386-397. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2021.196]
Waste management ; Human wastes ; Faecal sludge ; Excreta ; Resource recovery ; Organic fertilizers ; Cultural factors ; Periurban areas ; Caste systems ; Farmers' attitudes ; Agricultural workers ; Economic aspects ; Business models ; Sanitation / India / Karnataka / Dharwad / Bangalore
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050316)
https://iwaponline.com/washdev/article-pdf/11/3/386/889973/washdev0110386.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050316.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050316.pdf
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Safely managed waste reuse may be a sustainable way to protect human health and livelihoods in agrarian-based countries without adequate sewerage. The safe recovery and reuse of fecal sludge-derived fertilizer (FSF) has become an important policy discussion in low-income economies as a way to manage urban sanitation to benefit peri-urban agriculture. But what drives the user acceptance of composted fecal sludge? We develop a preference-ranking model to understand the attributes of FSF that contribute to its acceptance in Karnataka, India. We use this traditionally economic modeling method to uncover cultural practices and power disparities underlying the waste economy. We model farmowners and farmworkers separately, as the choice to use FSF as an employer versus as an employee is fundamentally different. We find that farmers who are willing to use FSF prefer to conceal its origins from their workers and from their own caste group. This is particularly the case for caste-adhering, vegetarian farmowners. We find that workers are open to using FSF if its attributes resemble cow manure, which they are comfortable handling. The waste economy in rural India remains shaped by caste hierarchies and practices, but these remain unacknowledged in policies promoting sustainable ‘business’ models for safe reuse. Current efforts under consideration toward formalizing the reuse sector should explicitly acknowledge caste practices in the waste economy, or they may perpetuate the size and scope of the caste-based informal sector.
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