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Author : Pay Drechsel
Release : 2014-09-17
Genre : Irrigation farming
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Book Rating : 983/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana: Characteristics, Benefits and Risk Mitigation by : Pay Drechsel
Download or read book Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana: Characteristics, Benefits and Risk Mitigation written by Pay Drechsel. This book was released on 2014-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 2006
Genre : Irrigation farming
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Book Synopsis Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana by :
Download or read book Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana written by . This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pay Drechsel
Release : 2006
Genre : Irrigation farming
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 421/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Informal Irrigation in Urban West Africa by : Pay Drechsel
Download or read book Informal Irrigation in Urban West Africa written by Pay Drechsel. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report tries to provide a state-of-the-art overview on irrigated urban agriculture in the West African subregion based on a comprehensive literature review supported by the results of three IWMI FAO projects.
Author : Keraita, B.
Release : 2015-10-06
Genre : Technology & Engineering
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 22X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Consumer Perceptions of Fruit and Vegetable Quality by : Keraita, B.
Download or read book Consumer Perceptions of Fruit and Vegetable Quality written by Keraita, B.. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increasing change of traditional diets, and the emergence of new supply and marketing chains, urban food consumers in low-income countries are faced with multiple food safety challenges, among which microbial contamination and pesticides are key concerns for fruits and vegetables sold on urban markets in West Africa. Although consumers have a genuine interest in healthy food, and are willing to pay premiums, their interpretation of food quality and risks deviates from scientific health risk assessments and does not translate into recommended risk mitigation behavior. To safeguard public health, alternative measures are needed to support consumers’ risk awareness and decision making. The review looked at common and less-common options to trigger and support behavioral change, including safety labeling (certification), corporate social responsibility models, incentive systems and social marketing of safe practices, to address potential food safety risks from farming in urban and peri-urban areas. Overall, it appears that regulatory measures for risk management, including certifications, will be – for now – less effective in the West African setup due to low educational levels in view of chemical and microbial risk, diverse and often informal food chains, poor safety supporting infrastructure and weak institutional capacities for compliance monitoring.
Author : Imogen Bellwood-Howard
Release : 2015-10-06
Genre : Technology & Engineering
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 211/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Characteristics of Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in West Africa by : Imogen Bellwood-Howard
Download or read book Characteristics of Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in West Africa written by Imogen Bellwood-Howard. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report summarizes key results from surveys carried out on urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) in Tamale (Ghana) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) in 2013. The aim was to provide a broad overview of the state of UPA in the study cities and a basis for future research endeavors. The randomized sampling approach used aerial photography to identify 10 sites in different categories of farm in each city. Farmers provided information on their cropping and livestock-rearing activities. There were similarities between the cities, but the differences in the expression of UPA in Tamale and Ouagadougou were more intriguing, as in farm sizes, crops grown and livestock ownership. Farmers were particularly concerned about diminishing access to land in Tamale, where sales by chiefs to private investors were accelerating. In Ouagadougou, formal reallocation of land to homeowners by the state had similarly decreased available farmland. Water availability was a universal concern, and the quality of water used for irrigation was potentially more questionable in Ouagadougou than in Tamale. The results point to the need for further work on uncontaminated, perennial water sources and soil fertility management, alongside focuses on commercialization of animal production, and the legal, political and institutional context of UPA in different West African cities.
