… Most irrigation water used in urban vegetable farming in Ghana is contaminated with untreated
wastewater. This poses health risks to … As part of a study to explore options for health risk …

… water analysed in this study supports the earlier reports of the usage of poor quality
irrigation water for urban vegetable production in Ghanaian cities (Keraita, et al, 2003). …

… The purpose of the book is to summarize different studies initiated and supported by
IWMI in Ghana over the last five years on urban and peri-urban agriculture in general, and …

… sustainability of irrigated vegetable farming in Ghanaian cities. … linked to urban vegetable
farming and urban wastewater … irrigation and/or the adoption of safety measures for risk …

… agriculture and the common use of polluted irrigation water. It describes our focus on
irrigated smallholder vegetable production and our understanding of the terms ‘urban‘, ‘peri-urban’ …

… Vegetables have high water requirements and need to be irrigated on a daily basis; therefore,
vegetable farming … identified for risk reduction from wastewater irrigation in major cities in …

… This paper presents findings from an assessment study on heavy-metal contamination in
irrigated urban vegetable farming in Accra. The assessment was done to determine whether …

… would better appreciate health-related risks of waster irrigation and how to adopt risk …
The main hypothesis tested in this paper is that household and farm characteristics tend to …

… This paper reviews available literature on the characteristics of urban vegetable production
… Irrigated urban vegetable production in Ghana: Characteristics, benefits and risks. IWMI-…

… heavy metal contamination in the irrigation water which can pose various health risks. Thus,
… Bacterial colonies differing in their morphological characteristics were randomly selected …