Food security in sub-Saharan Africa: what could be the contribution of productive sanitation?

Nelson Ekane; Linus Dagerskog

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Food security in sub-Saharan Africa: what could be the contribution of productive sanitation?

Can the productive reuse of sanitation products contribute significantly to increased food security in sub-Saharan Africa?

Nelson Ekane, Linus Dagerskog / Published on 5 June 2014

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Dagerskog, L., Peter Morgan, P., Still, D., Ochiro, B., Ekane, N., Henry, L., Harawa, K. (2014). Food security in sub-Saharan Africa: what could be the contribution of productive sanitation?. In Cross, P., Coombes, Y., Sanitation and Hygiene in Africa: Where do We Stand? Analysis from the AfricaSan Conference, Kigali, Rwanda. London, IWA Publishing. pp 67-75.

This chapter, in the report Sanitation and Hygiene in Africa – Where Do We Stand? explores what potential exists and how to realize it. It addresses differences in rural and urban settings and presents examples of challenges and successes experienced in some countries of the region.

The chapter was developed based on a session SEI organised at the Third African Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene (AfricaSan 3) in 2011.

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Nelson Ekane

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Linus Dagerskog

Research Fellow

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