Research & reports

Peer-reviewed research and reports on community urban agriculture, food education, composting, welfare and more.

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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

• The Micro-Politics of Urban Transformation in the Context of Globalisation: A Case Study of Gurgaon, India

  2013

  Tathagata Chatterji · South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies · India (Gurgaon)

  A case study of Gurgaon, India, examined how local political factors, the rural-urban divide, and inter-governmental conflicts influenced the governance of a rapidly globalizing urban region. The study found that Gurgaon's real estate-driven transformation from a rural town to an outsourcing hub, involving the conversion of peri-urban agricultural land, has resulted in a fragmented landscape with glaring inequalities. This rapid urban makeover created everyday tensions and contradictions, particularly evident with the formation of a new municipal corporation.

  Equity & displacementPeri-urban agriculturePolicyEconomics
  Read source →DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2012.739272