Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa
To identify interventions which reduce health risks of consumers where highly polluted irrigation water is used to irrigate vegetables in West Africa, scientists worked over 5 years with farmers, market traders and street food vendors in Ghana. The most promising low-cost interventions with high ado...
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| Format: | Informe técnico |
| Language: | Inglés |
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International Water Management Institute
2011
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39927 |
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