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• Use of untreated wastewater in peri-urban agriculture in Pakistan: risks and opportunities

  2002

  Jeroen H. J. Ensink, Wim van der Hoek, Yutaka Matsuno, Sarfraz Munir, Muhammad Rizwan Aslam · CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) · Pakistan

  The use of untreated wastewater for irrigation is widespread in Pakistan's peri-urban agriculture, driven by water scarcity and lack of treatment funds. This practice has led to an uncontrolled expansion of wastewater use. The paper emphasizes the need to document this practice to find improvement methods within the financial constraints of low-income countries.

  Contamination & food safetyPeri-urban agricultureHealthEconomics
  Read source →DOI: 10.3910/2009.069

• Quality assurance initiatives for peri-urban food production in India

  2002

  Nigel Poole, DS Bhupal, Fiona Marshall, Dolf te Lintelo · · India

  New knowledge is presented on the impacts of urban and peri-urban (UPU) environmental pollution on food safety attributes of vegetable marketing systems in India. Air pollution reduces crop yield and nutritional quality, and is a major source of particulate contaminants that accumulate at toxic levels in edible crops. The study explores the balance between public and private quality assurance initiatives and identifies wholesale markets as a potential entry point for quality assurance.

  Contamination & food safetyHealthPeri-urban agriculturePolicyClimate change
  Read source →DOI: 10.3920/9789086865079_028