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1 Leitzinger, C.; Drechsel, P.; Cofie, O. O. 2002. Estimation and amelioration of urban and peri-urban nutrient mining. Paper presented at IWMI – Kasetsart University (Bangkok) Mini-Symposium on Practices and Constraints of Land and Water Resources Management in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture, March 12, 2002. 6p.
Waste management ; Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Nutrients ; Composting / Ghana / Kumasi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.875 G200 LEI Record No: H031920)
2 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)
3 Obuobie, Emmanuel; Sarpong, Eric. 2005. Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) studies: general overview of urban and peri-urban agriculture in the Cape Coast and Takoradi Municipalities. IWMI West Africa (Ghana) internal project report. 7p.
Suburban agriculture ; Land tenure ; Vegetables ; Gender ; Irrigated farming ; Costs ; Marketing / Ghana / Cape Coast
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.2 G200 OBU Record No: H037654)
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4 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.
5 Gayathri Devi, M.; Buechler, S. 2009. Gender dimensions of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Hyderabad, India. In Hovorka, A.; de Zeeuw, H.; Njenga, M. (Eds). Women feeding cities: mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture and food security. Warwickshire, UK: Practicle Action Publishing. pp.35-50.
Gender ; Analysis ; Labor ; Farmers ; Women ; Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Community involvement ; Social aspects ; Wastewater irrigation ; Grasses ; Milk production ; Vegetables / India / Hyderabad / Kachiguda / Pirzadiguda / Parvathapuram / Musi River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338 G000 HOR Record No: H042152)
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6 Jacobi, J.; Drescher, A. W.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie H.; Weckenbrock, P. 2009. Agricultural biodiversity strengthening livelihoods in Periurban Hyderabad, India. Urban Agriculture Magazine, 22:45-47.
Wastewater irrigation ; Vegetable growing ; Vegetable crops ; Diversification ; Suburban agriculture ; Periurban areas ; Farmers ; Women / India / Hyderabad / Musi River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042332)
http://www.ruaf.org/sites/default/files/BDU-09222-UAM22%20WEB.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042332.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042332.pdf
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In periurban Hyderabad, India, leafy vegetables are increasingly grown along the Musi River and sold in urban markets. This agricultural biodiversity can significantly help urban and periurban farmers become more resilient to the impacts of such changes.
7 Research Institute for Groundwater (RIGW); IWACO B. V., Consultants for Water and Environment. (Eds.) 1991. Planning for groundwater development in arid and semi-arid regions. Cairo, Egypt: Research Institute for Groundwater (RIGW).; Rotterdam, The Netherlands: IWACO B. V., Consultants for Water and Environment. 310p.
Planning ; Groundwater development ; Groundwater management ; Arid zones ; Aquifers ; Water resource management ; Water supply ; River basins ; Environmental impact assessment ; Hydrogeology ; Suburban agriculture ; Deserts ; Economic evaluation ; Remote sensing ; GIS ; Irrigation systems ; Population growth / Egypt / Bahrain / Botswana / Burkina Faso / Chad / Jordan / Libya / Pakistan / Saudi Arabia / United Arab Emirates / Yemen / Nubian sandstone aquifer / Nile Delta / Moghra aquifer
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.9104 G000 RES Record No: H044492)
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8 Forkuor, Gerald; Drechsel, Pay; Cofie, Olufunke. 2011. A GIS-based approach for integrating agriculture into urban and peri-urban planning. West Africa Review, 19:136-154.
GIS ; Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Urban planning ; Transport ; Markets ; Water resources ; Topography ; Land tenure ; Analytical methods / Ghana / Accra
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044645)
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In most developing countries, zoning land for urban farming remains a major obstacle to urban and peri-urban agriculture. In this study, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Analysis are used to demonstrate how city authorities can integrate farming into their planning. The study was conducted in five districts in and around Ghana’s capital city. Spatial layers representing six influencing factors were created. Results indicate that, out of the five districts, Tema municipality has the highest percentage of suitable lands for agriculture while Akuapim South has the lowest. City authorities are encouraged to adopt the approach, as it would enable them to build and monitor different scenarios (with different factors and weights) in a participatory manner before and after planning decisions are made.
9 Scott, C. A.; Raschid-Sally, Liqa. 2012. The global commodification of wastewater. Water International, 37(2):147-155. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2012.662727]
Wastewater management ; Wastewater treatment ; Water reuse ; Water rates ; Urban areas ; Water supply ; Water scarcity ; Sewage ; Sanitation ; Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Public-private cooperation ; Developing countries ; commodities / Pakistan / India / Ethiopia / Ghana / Mexico / USA
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H044979)
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With growing scarcity and competition for water, urban wastewater is increasingly marketable because of its water and nutrient values. Commodification has implications for the current “residual” uses of wastewater (particularly by poor farmers in developing countries), for the risk of disease transmission, and for wastewater-dependent agro-ecosystems. Using examples from Pakistan, India, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mexico, and the United States, this paper contrasts commodification as it occurs in the developed and developing worlds and demonstrates the need for public information and coherent institutional frameworks, including private- and public-sector participation.
10 FAO. 2012. On-farm practices for the safe use of wastewater in urban and peri-urban horticulture: a training handbook for farmer field schools. [Includes contributions by IWMI staff]. Rome, Italy: FAO. 52p.
Training materials ; Wastewater irrigation ; Horticulture ; Farmers ; Irrigation water ; Contamination ; Wastewater treatment ; Filtration ; Vegetable growing ; Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Health hazards ; Irrigated farming ; Ponds ; Monitoring ; Indicators ; Information dissemination / Ghana / Burkina Faso / Kumasi / Ouagadougou
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7.2 G000 FAO Record No: H045086)
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11 Smits, S.; Atengdem, J.; Darteh, B.; van Koppen, Barbara; Moriarty, P.; Nyarko, K.; Obuoubisa-Darko, A.; Ofosu, E.; Venot, Jean-Philippe; Williams, T. 2011. Multiple use water services in Ghana scoping study. Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); New York, NY, USA: Rockefeller Foundation; Hague, Netherlands: International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC). 73p.
Multiple use ; Water resources development ; Water management ; Domestic water ; Water supply ; Irrigation water ; Irrigation schemes ; Surface water ; Water reuse ; Water users ; Research projects ; Rural development ; Development projects ; Rainfed farming ; Rural areas ; Suburban agriculture ; Reservoirs ; Models ; Investment ; Costs ; Living standards ; Community management ; Dams ; Wells ; Non governmental organizations ; Water user associations ; Policy / Ghana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045519)
http://www.musgroup.net/content/download/1328/11685/file/Report%20MUS%20Scoping%20Ghana%20IWMI%20-%20IRC.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045519.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045519.pdf
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12 Jayathilake, Nilanthi; Semasinghe, Cristina; Manthrithilake, Herath; Jinapala, K.; Ariyaratne, Ranjith. 2013. Quantification of potential impacts of urban and peri urban agriculture and forestry, Sri Lanka, on climate change. In Sri Lanka Water Partnership (Lanka Jalani); International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Unilever-Pureit. Proceedings of the First Young Water Professionals Symposium, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 22-23 November 2012. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Water Partnership (Lanka Jalani); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Colombo, Sri Lanka: Unilever-Pureit. pp.154-159.
Climate change ; Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Agricultural production ; Forestry ; Food security ; Water resources ; Energy ; Fertilizers / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G744 SRI Record No: H046159)
http://lankajalani.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Proceedings-YWPS.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046159.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046159.pdf
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13 Larbi, T. O.; Cofie, Olufunke; Amoah, Philip; Veenhuizen, R. V. 2014. Strengthening urban producer organizations for innovative vegetable production and marketing in West African cities: experiences from Accra, Chana and Ibadan, Nigeria. In Nono-Womdim, R.; Mendez, D. Gutierrez; Sy Gaye, A. (Eds.). International Symposium on Urban and Peri-Urban Horticulture in the Century of Cities: Lessons, Challenges, Opportunities, Dakar, Senegal, 6 December 2010. Vol 1. Leuven, Belgium: International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS). pp.167-180. (ISHS Acta Horticulturae 1021)
Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Vegetables ; Food security ; Marketing ; Wastewater ; Farmers ; Capacity building / Nigeria / Accra / Chana / Ibadan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046436)
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Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is seen as a subsistence-oriented production system. It has been given little formal support or recognition by city authorities in the development plans. Recent development programmes have continued to raise awareness about this phenomenon, and local authorities have begun to understand the role UPA can play in improving urban food supply and reducing poverty. Constraints to UPA such as limited access to land and good quality water, poor farmer organization, participation in policy development, and poor policy support, imply that UPA needs to be productive and profitable through diverse innovations. In Accra, Ghana and Ibadan, Nigeria, 200 urban farmers were organized into 8 producer groups and trained using technical and organizational innovations in vegetable production so as to improve yield and income. The Ibadan groups were predominantly female farmers, while Accra groups were mainly male. Training was delivered through the Urban Producer Field Schools (UPFS) on topics ranging from integrated plant production and protection principles, food safety and risk-minimization in wastewater use for irrigation to value-addition for marketing. Farmers dealt with organized marketing, targeting niche markets. The farmer groups in Accra progressed significantly over a one-year period of group strengthening as became evident in their organized structure and participation in group processes. The Ibadan group lagged behind at the group formation stage, apparently because of the hierarchical nature of the group and personal conflicts. In addition, external factors such as disease infestation affected the group processes in Ibadan. Adoption of innovations was higher among the farmers in Accra, where farmers applied at least 3 out of 6 different innovations, while adoption of innovations among female farmers in Ibadan was low: as less than 30% adopted 2 out of 5 different innovations. In both Accra and Ibadan, considerable improvement in crop performance was recorded.
14 Cofie, Olufunke; Van Rooijen, D.; Nikiema, Josiane. 2014. Challenges and opportunities for recycling excreta for peri-urban agriculture in urbanising countries. In Maheshwari, B.; Purohit, R.; Malano, H.; Singh, V. P.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie. (Eds.). The security of water, food, energy and liveability of cities: challenges and opportunities for peri-urban futures. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp.301-310. (Water Science and Technology Library Volume 71)
Suburban agriculture ; Urban agriculture ; Urban areas ; Sanitation ; Health hazards ; Excreta ; Faecal coliforms ; Waste treatment ; Urine ; Recycling ; Organic fertilizers ; Composting ; Food production ; Environmental health / Ghana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046582)
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As urbanisation increases, so does the challenge of meeting water, sanitation and food requirements in urban areas. In particular, the management of human excreta from on-site sanitation facilities remains a challenge and continues to endanger public health and degrades the environment through soil and water pollution. Yet much of the excreta consist of organic matter and nutrients that are valuable inputs for agriculture. Recycling in agriculture has often neglected the recovery of nutrients and organic matter in faecal sludge collected from on-site sanitation facilities in developing countries. Exploring the high proportion of resources in excreta can provide a win–win strategy by reducing the environmental pollution, enhancing soil fertility and therefore improving livelihoods. Challenges to maximising these benefits include: type of sanitation facility used in developing countries, nature of faecal materials, prevailing treatment technologies which are usually designed for waste disposal not for reuse, institutional and market factors as well as negative perceptions regarding excreta use in agriculture. Nevertheless, urban and peri-urban agriculture presents a good opportunity for nutrient recycling, provided that technological and socio-economic strategies for optimum recovery are taken into account. The paper concludes with a description of successful recycling options that can contribute to improving farm productivity, using evidence from Ghana.
15 Drechsel, Pay; Keraita, B. (Eds.) 2014. Irrigated urban vegetable production in Ghana: characteristics, benefits and risk mitigation. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 247p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2014.219]
Irrigated farming ; Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Vegetable growing ; Risk management ; Wastewater irrigation ; Cropping systems ; Food security ; Food supply ; Sanitation ; Water quality ; Water use ; Water policy ; Economic aspects ; Financing ; Households ; Income ; Marketing ; Gender ; Women farmers ; Land tenure ; Soil fertility ; Biological contamination ; Pesticide residues ; Helminths ; Heavy metals ; Faecal coliforms ; Environmental health ; Sustainability ; Public health ; Health hazards ; Malaria ; Stakeholders / Ghana / West Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046597)
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16 Drechsel, Pay; Adam-Bradford, A.; Raschid-Sally, Liqa. 2014. Irrigated vegetable farming in urban Ghana: a farming system between challenges and resilience. In Drechsel, Pay; Keraita, B. (Eds.) Irrigated urban vegetable production in Ghana: characteristics, benefits and risk mitigation. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.1-6.
Irrigated farming ; Farming systems ; Vegetables ; Urbanization ; Irrigation water ; Water pollution ; Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Farmers / West Africa / Ghana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046598)
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This chapter serves as an introduction to the book and provides brief information about urbanization in West Africa, and in Ghana in particular, the general role of urban agriculture and the common use of polluted irrigation water. It describes our focus on irrigated smallholder vegetable production and our understanding of the terms ‘urban‘, ‘peri-urban’ and ‘wastewater’. The chapter reflects on some of the key challenges of the farming system, its dynamic and resilience. It also gives an overview on the structure of the book, the origins of the data and the main objective of this publication.
17 Danso, G.; Hope, L.; Drechsel, Pay. 2014. Financial and economic aspects of urban vegetable farming. In Drechsel, Pay; Keraita, B. (Eds.) Irrigated urban vegetable production in Ghana: characteristics, benefits and risk mitigation. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.38-50.
Economic aspects ; Financing ; Costs ; Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Farming systems ; Vegetables ; Crops ; Pesticides ; Soil fertility ; Public health ; Health hazards ; Malaria ; Food supply ; Food security ; Households ; Environmental impact / Ghana / Kumasi / Accra / Tamale
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046601)
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This chapter explores some of the financial and economic aspects of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Ghana. Cost-benefit analysis comparisons were made of farm finances of common rural, peri-urban and urban farming systems. Substudies also tried to quantify benefits for society and to cost externalities related to soil nutrient depletion, pesticide use and urban malaria.
18 Drechsel, Pay. 2014. Who feeds the cities?: a comparison of urban, peri-urban and rural food flows in Ghana. In Maheshwari, B.; Purohit, R.; Malano, H.; Singh, V. P.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie. (Eds.). The security of water, food, energy and liveability of cities: challenges and opportunities for peri-urban futures. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp.257-267. (Water Science and Technology Library Volume 71)
Suburban agriculture ; Urban agriculture ; Rural areas ; Food supply ; Nutrients ; Waste treatment ; Composts ; Faeces ; Sewage sludge ; Urban areas ; Environmental effects / Ghana / Accra / Kumasi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046690)
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The present study quantified for the two major cities of Ghana, Accra and Kumasi, the contribution of peri-urban agriculture, rural agriculture and urban agriculture to urban food supply, and analysed how much of the nutrients needed in peri-urban areas could be recovered from urban waste recycling. While the majority of calorie rich food derives from rural areas, urban and peri-urban farms cover significant shares of certain, usually more perishable but vitamin rich commodities. With every harvest, the soils in the production areas export parts of their nutrients or soil fertility. Thus the “urban nutrient footprint” is significant and calls for options to close the rural-urban nutrient loop. Currently, between 70 and 80 % of the nitrogen and phosphorous consumed in Kumasi pollutes the urban environment, especially ground and surface water. Based on the available waste transport capacity in Kumasi, the entire nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) demand of urban farming could be covered, and 18 % of the N and 25 % of the P needs of peri-urban agriculture in a 40 km radius around Kumasi, if the already collected organic municipal waste and fecal sludge would be co-composted.
19 Thebo, A. L.; Drechsel, Pay; Lambin, E. F. 2014. Global assessment of urban and peri-urban agriculture: irrigated and rainfed croplands. Environmental Research Letters, 9(11):1-9.
Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Rainfed farming ; Farmland ; Food security ; Land use ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046700)
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/11/114002/pdf/1748-9326_9_11_114002.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046700.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046700.pdf
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The role of urban agriculture in global food security is a topic of increasing discussion. Existing research on urban and peri-urban agriculture consists largely of case studies that frequently use disparate definitions of urban and peri-urban agriculture depending on the local context and study objectives. This lack of consistency makes quantification of the extent of this practice at the global scale difficult. This study instead integrates global data on croplands and urban extents using spatial overlay analysis to estimate the global area of urban and peri-urban irrigated and rainfed croplands. The global area of urban irrigated croplands was estimated at about 24 Mha (11.0 percent of all irrigated croplands) with a cropping intensity of 1.48. The global area of urban rainfed croplands found was approximately 44 Mha (4.7 percent of all rainfed croplands) with a cropping intensity of 1.03. These values were derived from the MIRCA2000 Maximum Monthly Cropped Area Grids for irrigated and rainfed crops and therefore their sum does not necessarily represent the total urban cropland area when the maximum extent of irrigated and rainfed croplands occurs in different months. Further analysis of croplands within 20 km of urban extents show that 60 and 35 percent of, respectively, all irrigated and rainfed croplands fall within this distance range.
20 Amerasinghe, Priyanie. 2014. Peri-urbanisation of rural India - is this the furute? [Abstract only] In Maheshwari, B. L.; Simmons, B.; Thoradeniya, B. Proceedings of the International Conference on Peri-Urban Landscapes: Water, Food and Environmental Security. Penrith, New South Wales, Australia: University of Western Sydney. pp.16.
Suburban agriculture ; Rural areas ; Socioeconomic aspects ; Environmental effects ; Political aspects ; Governance / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046845)
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