The Role of Urban Agriculture in Sustainable Urban Nutrient Management

Contents:

Closing the Rural-Urban Food and Nutrient Loops in West Africa: a reality check 08 Analysing the Nexus of Sanitation and Agriculture at Municipal Scale 11 Closing the Phosphorus Loop in Hanoi, Vietnam 13 Assessing Patterns of Nitrogen Management in Periurban Agriculture of Hanoi, Vietnam 15 Nutrient Cycles in Three African Cities 17 Decentralised Composting of Market Waste and Use in Conakry, Guinea 20 The Productive Garden: An experience in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil 22 Improving Food Security through Environmental Management in Ibadan 25 Municipal Solid Waste Management as an Incentive for City Farming in Pune, India 27 Commercial Substrates for Urban Agriculture in Bogotá 29 Using Participatory Urban Design to “Close the Nutrient Loop” in the Philippines 31 Using Urban Organic Waste as a Source of Nutrients, the need of awareness raising 34 No Place Like Home: Gender and Capacity Development in Master Composting Programmes 35 Producing Organic Fertiliser from Urine-Diverting Dry Toilets in Dongsheng, China 39 The Role of Urban Agriculture in Waste Management in Mexico City 40 Energy Balance in a Suburban Chinampa Agroecosystem in Mexico City 42 Food Security and Productive Sanitation: Practical guideline on the use of urine in crop production 43 The Emerging Market of Treated Human Excreta in Ouagadougou 45 Introducing Urine as an Alternative Fertiliser Source: Case studies from Nigeria and Ghana 49