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IFAD grant on sustainable sanitation and agriculture!The International Fund
for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has awarded a grant to CREPA and EcoSanRes
to manage a project entitled "Testing a nutrient recycling system (Productive
Sanitation Systems) in Niger with a view to measuring its potential for
improving agricultural productivity".In the context of the soaring world
fertilizer prices, the ca. billion poor smallholder farmers in the world have to
use alternative solutions to produce affordable nutrients which can sustain
agricultural food production. A new paradigm in agriculture is in the making
linking it to sanitation systems using e.g. urine source-separation, collection
and reuse as a chemical fertilizer. IFAD has the interest to test this
Productive Sanitation System (PSS) to improve the situation for poor smallholder
farmers by providing access to safe human-generated fertilizer for crops.
This pilot project will be integrated into the
PPILDA
project in the Maradi region (South Niger) to address specifically the
improvement of low soil fertility in optimizing nutrient reuse (with hygienised
urine).
It will test whether Productive Sanitation Systems are accepted by the local
population and if it provides an increase in food production, nutrition, income
and health in the pilot communities. A comparative analysis with commercial
chemical fertilizers will be carried out. The work is based on similar previous
successful projects in Africa by CREPA and SEI/EcoSanRes.
Important links:
(Content from
Sanitation Updates)
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