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Waste composting for urban and peri-urban agriculture : closing the rural-urban nutrient cycle in sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Pay Drechsel and Dagmar Kunze.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Compost--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Compost.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York : CABI Pub., c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 peri-urban areas. This book addresses these subjects.
- Contents:
- Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1 The Potential Use of Waste-stream Products for Soil Amelioration in Peri-urban Interface Agricultural Production Systems; 2 Economic, Sociocultural and Environmental Considerations; 3 Turning Urban Waste into Fertilizer for Urban and Peri-urban Farmers: Case Studies from East and West Africa; 4 Modelling Urban and Peri-urban Biomass and Nutrient Flows; 5 Urban Agriculture: International Support and Capacity Building in Africa; 6 Research and Development Priorities; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-82961-3
- 9786610829613
- 0-85199-889-5
- OCLC:
- 476061193
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