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Irrigated urban vegetable production in Ghana: characteristics, benefits and risks

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  1. 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.
  2. Charles Y. OKYERE & Yira YACOUBA & Dominik GILGENBACH, 2013. "The Problem Of Annual Occurrences Of Floods In Accra: An Integration Of Hydrological, Economic And Political Perspectives," Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 8(2), pages 45-79, May.
  3. Probst, Lorenz & Houedjofonon, Elysée & Ayerakwa, Hayford Mensah & Haas, Rainer, 2012. "Will they buy it? The potential for marketing organic vegetables in the food vending sector to strengthen vegetable safety: A choice experiment study in three West African cities," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 37(3), pages 296-308.
  4. 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.
  5. Bernard Keraita & Pay Drechsel & Flemming Konradsen, 2008. "Perceptions of farmers on health risks and risk reduction measures in wastewater-irrigated urban vegetable farming in Ghana," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(8), pages 1047-1061, December.
  6. Drechsel, Pay & Cofie, Olufunke & Niang, Seydou, 2008. "Sustainability and resilience of the urban agricultural phenomenon in Africa," IWMI Books, Reports H041597, International Water Management Institute.
  7. Obour, Peter Bilson & Dadzie, Frederick Asankom & Kristensen, Hanne Lakkenborg & Rubæk, Gitte Holton & Kjeldsen, Chris & Saba, Courage Kosi Setsoafia, 2015. "Assessment of farmers’ knowledge on fertilizer usage for peri-urban vegetable production in the Sunyani Municipality, Ghana," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 77-84.
  8. Prince Antwi-Agyei & Anne Peasey & Adam Biran & Jane Bruce & Jeroen Ensink, 2016. "Risk Perceptions of Wastewater Use for Urban Agriculture in Accra, Ghana," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(3), pages 1-18, March.
  9. Scheierling, S. M., 2010. "Improving wastewater use in agriculture: an emerging priority," IWMI Working Papers H043153, International Water Management Institute.
  10. Neda Tiraieyari & Roya Karami & Robert M. Ricard & Mohammad Badsar, 2019. "Influences on the Implementation of Community Urban Agriculture: Insights from Agricultural Professionals," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(5), pages 1-18, March.
  11. Graça, Manjate, 2018. "Scope effects in contingent valuation: an application to the valuation of irrigation water quality improvements in Infulene Valley, Mozambique," Research Theses 334752, Collaborative Masters Program in Agricultural and Applied Economics.
  12. Qadir, M. & Wichelns, D. & Raschid-Sally, L. & McCornick, P.G. & Drechsel, P. & Bahri, A. & Minhas, P.S., 2010. "The challenges of wastewater irrigation in developing countries," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 97(4), pages 561-568, April.
  13. Abdulai, Awudu & Owusu, Victor & Bakang, John-Eudes A., 2011. "Adoption of safer irrigation technologies and cropping patterns: Evidence from Southern Ghana," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(7), pages 1415-1423, May.
  14. Suzana Samson & Robinson H. Mdegela & Anders Permin & James E. D. Mlangwa & Christopher P. Mahonge, 2017. "Obstacles to Low Quality Water Irrigation of Food Crops in Morogoro, Tanzania," Journal of Sustainable Development, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 10(2), pages 1-1, March.
  15. Drechsel, Pay & Cofie, Olufunke & Niang, Seydou, 2008. "Sustainability and resilience of the urban agricultural phenomenon in Africa," Book Chapters,, International Water Management Institute.
  16. Elias K. Asiam & Gifty Kyeame & Bennetta Koomson, 2021. "Ascertaining The Quality Of Water For Irrigation And Its Impact On Vegetable Quality: A Case Study Along The Bibini River In Kumasi," Environment & Ecosystem Science (EES), Zibeline International Publishing, vol. 5(2), pages 85-93, June.
  17. Jusufu Abdulai & Fred Nimoh & Samuel Darko-Koomson & Kassoh Kassoh, 2017. "Performance of Vegetable Production and Marketing in Peri-Urban Kumasi, Ghana," Journal of Agricultural Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 9(3), pages 202-202, February.
  18. Victor Owusu & John-Eudes Bakang & Robert Abaidoo & Modeste Kinane, 2012. "Perception on untreated wastewater irrigation for vegetable production in Ghana," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 14(1), pages 135-150, February.
  19. 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).
  20. Amoah, Philip & Keraita, Bernard & Akple, Maxwell & Drechsel, Pay & Abaidoo, Robert Clement & Konradsen, Flemming, 2011. "Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa," IWMI Research Reports 108673, International Water Management Institute.
  21. Owusu, Victor, 2012. "Assessing Consumer Willingness to Pay a Premium for Organic Food Product: Evidence from Ghana," 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil 123394, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
  22. 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.
  23. Adriana Allen & Alexandre Apsan Frediani, 2013. "Farmers, not gardeners," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(3), pages 365-381, June.
  24. Amerasinghe, Priyanie & Cofie, Olufunke & Larbi, T. O. & Drechsel, Pay, 2013. "Facilitating outcomes: multi-stakeholder processes for influencing policy change on urban agriculture in selected West African and South Asian cities," IWMI Reports 201010, International Water Management Institute.
  25. Lux, Alexandra & Janowicz, Cedric, 2009. "Water use options for regional development. Potentials of new water technologies in Central Northern Namibia," MPRA Paper 17479, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  26. Owusu, Victor & Abdulai, Awudu, 2009. "Joint Adoption of Safer Irrigation Technologies under Uncertainty: Evidence from Ghana," MPRA Paper 43822, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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