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