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• The cultural economy of human waste reuse: perspectives from peri-urban Karnataka, India

  2021

  Zachary Burt, C. Shambu Prasad, Pay Drechsel, Isha Ray · Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development · India (Karnataka)

  A preference-ranking model was developed to understand the acceptance of fecal sludge-derived fertilizer (FSF) in Karnataka, India, by modeling farmowners and farmworkers separately. The study found that farmers willing to use FSF prefer to conceal its origins from workers and their caste group, especially caste-adhering, vegetarian farmowners. Workers were open to FSF if it resembled cow manure, revealing that the waste economy in rural India is shaped by unacknowledged caste hierarchies and practices.

  Equity & displacementOrganic cyclePeri-urban agriculturePolicyEconomicsHealthCommunity
  Read source →DOI: 10.2166/washdev.2021.196