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Irrigated urban vegetable production in Ghana: characteristics, benefits and risk mitigation

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  • Drechsel, Pay
  • Keraita, B.

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  • Drechsel, Pay & Keraita, B., 2014. "Irrigated urban vegetable production in Ghana: characteristics, benefits and risk mitigation," IWMI Books, International Water Management Institute, number 208760.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:iwmibo:208760
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.208760
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    1. Hanna Karg & Pay Drechsel & Edmund K. Akoto-Danso & Rüdiger Glaser & George Nyarko & Andreas Buerkert, 2016. "Foodsheds and City Region Food Systems in Two West African Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(12), pages 1-32, November.
    2. Akamin, Ajapnwa & Bidogeza, Jean-Claude & Minkoua N, Jules René & Afari-Sefa, Victor, 2017. "Efficiency and productivity analysis of vegetable farming within root and tuber-based systems in the humid tropics of Cameroon," MPRA Paper 85329, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Hanna Karg & Rafael Hologa & Johannes Schlesinger & Axel Drescher & Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic & Rüdiger Glaser, 2019. "Classifying and Mapping Periurban Areas of Rapidly Growing Medium-Sized Sub-Saharan African Cities: A Multi-Method Approach Applied to Tamale, Ghana," Land, MDPI, vol. 8(3), pages 1-22, February.
    4. Amponsah, Owusu & Vigre, Håkan & Schou, Torben Wilde & Boateng, Ethel Seiwaa & Braimah, Imoro & Abaidoo, Robert Clement, 2015. "Assessing low quality water use policy framework: Case study from Ghana," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 1-15.
    5. Hayford Mensah Ayerakwa & Fred Mawunyo Dzanku & Daniel Bruce Sarpong, 2020. "The geography of agriculture participation and food security in a small and a medium-sized city in Ghana," Agricultural and Food Economics, Springer;Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA), vol. 8(1), pages 1-21, December.
    6. Akoto-Danso, Edmund Kyei & Karg, Hanna & Drechsel, Pay & Nyarko, George & Buerkert, Andreas, 2019. "Virtual water flow in food trade systems of two West African cities," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 213(C), pages 760-772.
    7. Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa & Margaret Atosina Akuriba & Amissah Ebenezer & Karen Sakyibea Danquah & Danso Anthony Ofosu, 2019. "Profitability and constraints to urban exotic vegetable production systems in the Kumasi metropolis of Ghana: a recipe for job creation," Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, Springer;UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship, vol. 9(1), pages 1-19, December.
    8. Prince Antwi-Agyei & Sandy Cairncross & Anne Peasey & Vivien Price & Jane Bruce & Kelly Baker & Christine Moe & Joseph Ampofo & George Armah & Jeroen Ensink, 2015. "A Farm to Fork Risk Assessment for the Use of Wastewater in Agriculture in Accra, Ghana," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(11), pages 1-19, November.
    9. Frimpong Boamah, Emmanuel & Sumberg, James & Raja, Samina, 2020. "Farming within a dual legal land system: An argument for emancipatory food systems planning in Accra, Ghana," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    10. Taron, Avinandan & Drechsel, Pay & Gebrezgabher, Solomie, 2021. "Gender dimensions of solid and liquid waste management for reuse in agriculture in Asia and Africa," Resource Recovery and Reuse Series H050720, International Water Management Institute.
    11. Drechsel, Pay & Keraita, Bernard & Cofie, Olufunke O. & Nikiema, Josiane, 2015. "Productive and safe use of urban organic wastes and wastewater in urban food production systems in low-income counties," Book Chapters,, International Water Management Institute.
    12. Joycelyn K. Quansah & Cesar L. Escalante & Angela P.-H. Kunadu & Firibu K. Saalia & Jinru Chen, 2020. "Pre- and Post-Harvest Practices of Urban Leafy Green Vegetable Farmers in Accra, Ghana and Their Association with Microbial Quality of Vegetables Produced," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-14, January.
    13. Michael TUFFOUR, 2022. "Sustaining Urban Agriculture Under Intense Urbanisation In Ghana: Emerging And Existing Roles Of Formal Institutions," Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 17(3), pages 54-70, August.
    14. Ayambire, Raphael Anammasiya & Amponsah, Owusu & Peprah, Charles & Takyi, Stephen Appiah, 2019. "A review of practices for sustaining urban and peri-urban agriculture: Implications for land use planning in rapidly urbanising Ghanaian cities," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 260-277.
    15. CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)., 2017. "Enabling sustainable, productive smallholder farming systems through improved land and water management," IWMI Water Policy Briefings 311132, International Water Management Institute.
    16. OA Oyebamiji & ZS Kisava & JN Harris, 2021. "Irrigation and Productivity Empirical Insight of Farming Households in Tchien District," Current Investigations in Agriculture and Current Research, Lupine Publishers, LLC, vol. 9(2), pages 1196-1204, February.
    17. Gerard Quarcoo & Lady A. Boamah Adomako & Arpine Abrahamyan & Samuel Armoo & Augustina A. Sylverken & Matthew Glover Addo & Sevak Alaverdyan & Nasreen S. Jessani & Anthony D. Harries & Hawa Ahmed & Re, 2022. "What Is in the Salad? Escherichia coli and Antibiotic Resistance in Lettuce Irrigated with Various Water Sources in Ghana," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(19), pages 1-12, October.
    18. Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, 2017. "Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Ghana: What Governance System Works?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(11), pages 1-18, November.
    19. Prain, G. & Simon, D. & Halliday, J. & Drechsel, Pay, 2022. "Investment priorities for research and innovation in urban agri-food systems: toward more resilient cities in the Global South," Papers published in Journals (Open Access), International Water Management Institute, pages 1-6:965011..
    20. Wellbrock Wanja & Daniela Ludin & Ludwig Lisa N & Muhlfeld & Kristina, 2020. "Sustainable agriculture trough regional solidary in global markets," Journal of Applied and Physical Sciences, Prof. Vakhrushev Alexander, vol. 6(1), pages 01-10.
    21. Philip Amoah & Noah Adamtey & Olufunke Cofie, 2017. "Effect of Urine, Poultry Manure, and Dewatered Faecal Sludge on Agronomic Characteristics of Cabbage in Accra, Ghana," Resources, MDPI, vol. 6(2), pages 1-14, May.

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