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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International Water Management Institute
2011
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| author | Amoah, Philip Keraita, Bernard N. Akple, Maxwell Selase Kwasi Drechsel, Pay Abaidoo, Robert C. Konradsen, Flemming |
| author_browse | Abaidoo, Robert C. Akple, Maxwell Selase Kwasi Amoah, Philip Drechsel, Pay Keraita, Bernard N. Konradsen, Flemming |
| author_facet | Amoah, Philip Keraita, Bernard N. Akple, Maxwell Selase Kwasi Drechsel, Pay Abaidoo, Robert C. Konradsen, Flemming |
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| description | 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 adoption potential were analyzed for their ability to reduce common levels of pathogens (counts of fecal coliforms and helminth eggs). The analysis showed the combination potential of various interventions, especially on-farm and during vegetable washing in line with the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. The tested market-based interventions were important to prevent new or additional contamination. |
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| spelling | CGSpace399272025-11-07T08:43:41Z Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa Amoah, Philip Keraita, Bernard N. Akple, Maxwell Selase Kwasi Drechsel, Pay Abaidoo, Robert C. Konradsen, Flemming urban agriculture consumers public health health hazards risk management vegetable growing wastewater irrigation irrigation methods irrigation practices wastewater treatment filtration 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 adoption potential were analyzed for their ability to reduce common levels of pathogens (counts of fecal coliforms and helminth eggs). The analysis showed the combination potential of various interventions, especially on-farm and during vegetable washing in line with the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. The tested market-based interventions were important to prevent new or additional contamination. 2011 2014-06-13T14:29:42Z 2014-06-13T14:29:42Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39927 en Open Access application/pdf International Water Management Institute Amoah, Philip; Keraita, Bernard; Akple, Maxwell; Drechsel, Pay; Abaidoo, R. C.; Konradsen, F. 2011. Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 37p. (IWMI Research Report 141) doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2011.201 |
| spellingShingle | urban agriculture consumers public health health hazards risk management vegetable growing wastewater irrigation irrigation methods irrigation practices wastewater treatment filtration Amoah, Philip Keraita, Bernard N. Akple, Maxwell Selase Kwasi Drechsel, Pay Abaidoo, Robert C. Konradsen, Flemming Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa |
| title | Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa |
| title_full | Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa |
| title_fullStr | Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa |
| title_short | Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa |
| title_sort | low cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in west africa |
| topic | urban agriculture consumers public health health hazards risk management vegetable growing wastewater irrigation irrigation methods irrigation practices wastewater treatment filtration |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39927 |
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