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1 Danso, George; Drechsel, Pay; Gyiele, G. 2004. Urban household perception of urine-excreta and solid waste source separation in urban areas of Ghana. In Werner, C.; Avedano, V.; Demsat, S.; Eicher, I.; Hernandez, L.; Jung, C.; Kraus, S.; Lacayo, I.; Neupane, K.; Rabiega, A.; Wafler, M. Ecosan - Closing the loop: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Ecological Sanitation, Lubeck, Germany, 7-11 April 2003. Eschborn, Germany: GTZ. pp.191-196.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.875 G200 DAN Record No: H033175)
http://www.gtz.de/en/dokumente/en-ecosan-symposium-luebeck-session-b-2004.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H033175.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H033175.pdf
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2 Afrane, Y. A.; Klinkenberg, Eveline; Drechsel, Pay; Owusu-Daaku, K.; Garms, R.; Kruppa, T. 2004. Does irrigated urban agriculture influence the transmission of malaria in the City of Kumasi, Ghana? Acta Tropica, 89(2):125-134.
Irrigated farming ; Malaria ; Waterborne diseases ; Disease vectors ; Economic impact / Ghana / Kumasi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.5 G200 AFR, VL Record No: H033177)
3 Obuobie, Emmanuel; Drechsel, Pay; Danso, George; Raschid- Sally, Liqa. 2004. Gender in open- space irrigated urban vegetable farming in Ghana. Urban Agriculture Magazine, 12:13-15.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6985 Record No: H035259)
http://www.ruaf.org/sites/default/files/Gender%20in%20Open-Space%20Irrigated%20Urban%20Vegetable%20Farming%20in%20Ghana.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H_35259.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H_35259.pdf
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4 Drechsel, Pay; Giordano, Mark; Gyiele, Lucy. 2004. Valuing nutrients in soil and water: concepts and techniques with examples from IWMI studies in the developing world. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). v, 33p. (IWMI Research Report 082) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.083]
Soil fertility ; Water use ; Irrigation water ; Wastewater ; Water quality ; Soil properties ; Measurement ; Productivity ; Developing countries ; Farming systems ; Maize ; Cassava / Ghana / Mexico / Africa South of Sahara / Ghana
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.4 G000 DRE Record No: H035856)
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Despite the importance of nutrient-water interactions, they are often ignored in analysis. After discussing the interrelationships between soil nutrients and water and reviewing methods for determining nutrient balances, this report describes an array of available methods for soil nutrient valuation and provides a discussion of four nutrient valuation studies, which together cover a range of scales, perspectives, and geographic contexts. It also includes case studies from Ghana, Mexico, sub-Saharan Africa, and an examination of possible approaches to valuing soil organic matter and its various functions—an often ignored area in literature
5 Keraita, Bernard N.; Drechsel, Pay. 2004. Agricultural use of untreated urban wastewater in Ghana. In Scott, C. A.; Faruqui, N. I.; Raschid-Sally, L. (Eds.), Wastewater use in irrigated agriculture: Confronting the livelihood and environmental realities. Wallingford, UK ; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Ottawa, Canada: CABI Publishing; IWMI; IDRC. pp.101-112.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.5 G000 SCO Record No: H035956)
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/Books/PDF/Wastewater_Use_in_Irrigated_Agriculture.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H035956.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H035956.pdf
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6 Drechsel, Pay; Giordano, Mark; Enters, T. 2004. Valuing soil fertility change: selected methods and case studies. In Shiferaw, B.; Freeman, H. A.; Swinton, S. M. (Eds.), Natural resource management in agriculture: Methods for assessing economic and environmental impacts. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.199-221.
Soil fertility ; Farming systems ; Costs ; Maize ; Cassava ; Irrigation water ; Wastewater ; Water reuse ; Erosion ; Productivity / Ghana / Mexico / Africa South of Sahara / India / Kumasi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.2 G000 DRE, 338.1 G000 SHI Record No: H036047)
7 Amoah, Philip; Drechsel, Pay; Abaidoo, R. C. 2005. Irrigated urban vegetable production in Ghana: sources of pathogen contamination and health risk elimination. Irrigation and Drainage, 54(Supplement 1):S49-S61.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H037444)
8 Merrey, Douglas; Drechsel, Pay; Penning de Vries, Frits; Sally, Hilmy. 2005. Integrating ‘livelihoods’ into integrated water resources management: taking the integration paradigm to its logical next step for developing countries. Regional Environmental Change, 5:197-204.
Water resource management ; Developing countries ; Poverty ; Farmers ; River basins ; Aquifers ; Water supply / Africa / Asia / Latin America
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G000 MER Record No: H033882)
This paper examines the weaknesses in the current understanding of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) from the perspective of livelihoods. Empowering poor people, reducing poverty, improving livelihoods, and promoting economic growth ought to be the basic objectives of IWRM. But as currently understood and used, IWRM often tends to focus on second-generation issues such as cost recovery, reallocation of water to higher value uses, and environmental conservation. This paper argues that IWRM needs to be placed in the broader context of both modern Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) and the livelihoods approach, which together take a holistic and people-centered approach. The paper concludes with an alternative definition of IWRM as involving the promotion of human welfare, especially the reduction of poverty, encouragement of better livelihoods and balanced economic growth through effective democratic development and management of water and other natural resources in an integrated multilevel framework that is as equitable, sustainable, and transparent as possible, and conserves vital ecosystems. Transparent user-friendly information and models for assisting decision making are essential features of livelihood-oriented IWRM. Paper presented at Monitoring Tailor-Made IV Conference: Information to Support Sustainable Water Management: From Local to Global Levels, St. Michielsgestel, Netherlands, 15-18 September 2003. 11p.; ill, ref.
9 Cofie, Olufunke; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Gordana; Drechsel, Pay. 2005. The use of human waste for peri-urban agriculture in Northern Ghana. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 20(2):73-80.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.86 G200 COF Record No: H037652)
10 Drechsel, Pay; Zimmermann, Uta. 2005. Factors influencing the intensification of farming systems and soil-nutrient management in the rural-urban continuum of SW Ghana. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 168:1-9.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 630 G200 DRE Record No: H037653)
11 Danso, George; Drechsel, Pay; Fialor, S.; Giordano, Mark. 2006. Estimating the demand for municipal waste compost via farmers’ willingness-to-pay in Ghana. Waste Management, 26:1400–1409.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.86 G200 DAN Record No: H038107)
12 Drechsel, Pay; Danso, George. 2005. Nutrient recycling form organic waste for urban and peri-urban agriculture in West Africa: really a win-win situation? In Laband, D. N. (Ed.). Proceedings of the Conference on Emerging Issues Along Urban/Rural Interfaces: Linking Science and Society, Atlanta, Georgia, 13-16 March 2005. Alabama, AL, USA: Auburn University Center for Forest Sustainability. pp.208-213.
Organic wastes ; Nutrients ; Recycling ; Composting ; Urban agriculture ; Waste management / West Africa / Nigeria / Ghana / Togo / Benin / Accra / Kumasi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.86 G190 DRE Record No: H038172)
http://emergingissues.interfacesouth.org/pastconferences/2005proceedings.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H038172.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H038172.pdf
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13 Amoah, Philip; Drechsel, Pay; Abaidoo, R. C.; Ntow, W. J. 2006. Pesticide and pathogen contamination of vegetables in Ghana’s urban markets. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 50:1-6.
Public health ; Helminths ; Diseases ; Risks ; Vegetables ; Commodity markets ; Irrigation water ; Water quality ; Pesticide residues / Ghana / Accra, Gulf of Guinea / Kumasi / Ashanti
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 362.1 G200 AMO Record No: H038625)
http://www.springerlink.com/content/7575km06652224q3/fulltext.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H038625.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H038625.pdf
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14 Quansah, C.; Drechsel, Pay; Bakang, J. A. 2005. Participatory communication to improve natural resource management in peri-urban Kumasi, Ghana. In Méar, A. (Ed.). Food and water for millions: Participatory communication for land and water management. Ottawa, Canada: IDRC. pp.82-88.
Communication ; Farmer participation ; Agricultural research ; Agricultural extension ; Land management ; Soil fertility / Ghana / Kumasi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 630.715 G200 QUA Record No: H038626)
15 Drechsel, Pay; Olaleye, Adesola; Adeoti, Adetola; Thiombiano, L.; Barry, Boubacar; Vohland, K. 2006. Adoption driver and constraints of resource conservation technologies in sub-Saharan Africa. Unpublished paper. 21p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 338.1 G110 DRE Record No: H038736)
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16 Ntow, W. J.; Gijzen, H. J.; Kelderman, P.; Drechsel, Pay. 2006. Farmer perceptions and pesticide use practices in vegetable production in Ghana. Pest Management Science, 62:356-365.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 632.95 G200 NTO Record No: H038738)
17 Abraham, Ernest; Drechsel, Pay; Cofie, Olufunke. 2006. The challenge of urban flood control: the case of Accra’s Korle Lagoon. Paper presented at the 5th Worldwide Workshop for Young Environmental Scientists - Urban waters: resource or risk?, Domaine de Cherioux, Vitry sur Seine, France, 9-12 May 2006. 8p.
Lagoons ; Flood control ; Drainage ; Water management ; Sanitation ; Wastewater / Africa South of Sahara / Ghana / Accra / Korle Lagoon
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 627.4 G200 ABR Record No: H038739)
18 Drechsel, Pay; Quansah, C.; Asante-Mensah, S. 2001. Assessing farmers’ perceptions of organic wastes as nutrient sources. In Drechsel, P.; Kunze, D. (Eds.). Waste composting for urban and peri-urban agriculture: closing the rural-urban nutrient cycle in Sub-Saharan Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Rome, Italy, FAO; Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.43-54.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.875 G100 DRE Record No: H038896)
19 Mensah, E.; Amoah, Philip; Drechsel, Pay; Abaidoo, R. C. 2001. Environmental concerns of urban and peri-urban agriculture: case studies from Accra and Kumasi. In Drechsel, P.; Kunze, D. (Eds.). Waste composting for urban and peri-urban agriculture: closing the rural-urban nutrient cycle in Sub-Saharan Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Rome, Italy, FAO; Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.55-68.
Urban agriculture ; Irrigation water ; Pesticides ; Composts ; Organic fertilizers / West Africa / Ghana
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.875 G100 DRE Record No: H038897)
20 Drechsel, Pay; Graefe, S.; Sonou, M.; Cofie, Olufunke. 2006. Informal irrigation in urban West Africa: an overview. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 34p. (IWMI Research Report 102) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.102]
Irrigated farming ; Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Farm size ; Farming systems ; Health hazards ; Water pollution ; Farm income / West Africa
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G190 DRE Record No: H039249)
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This report tries to provide a state-of-the-art overview on irrigated urban agriculture in the W est African subregion based on a com prehensive literature review supported by the results of three IWMI FAO projects.
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