Projekt

Urban agriculture (UA) increasingly supplies food and non-food values to the rapidly growing West African cities. However, with its typically heavy use of fertilizers, agrochemicals, municipal wastes and sewage as inputs to the production of crops, vegetables and livestock feeds, UA bears severe risks of environmental pollution and food contamination. This project therefore aims at quantifying nutrient inputs, transfers and potential problems of UA activities in the three West African cities of Sikasso (Mali), Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) and Kano (Nigeria), which differ in their population density and biophysical conditions. The project couples process-oriented biophysical research and the use of bioeconomic models with a north-south transfer of knowledge in the quantification and modelling of nutrient fluxes and a south-south transfer of expertise on soil and product contamination with faecal pathogens, pesticides and heavy metals. The project thereby aims at (i) minimizing negative side effects of UA on food safety and environmental health and (ii) in cooperation with NGOs and local administrative bodies developing scientifically sound recommendations at the producers' level to enhance the resource use efficiency and productivity of the UA production systems.

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Bürkert

  Universität Kassel
  FB 11: Ökologische Agrarwissenschaften
  Fachgebiet Ökologischer Pflanzenbau und Agraröko-
  systemforschung in den Tropen und Subtropen
  Witzenhausen
  

• Prof. Dr. Eva Schlecht

  Universität Kassel
  Fachbereich 11: Ökologische Agrarwissenschaften
  Fachgebiet Animal Husbandry in the (Sub-) Tropics
  Witzenhausen
  

• Prof. Dr. Oliver Hensel

  Universität Kassel
  Fachbereich Ökologische Agrarwissenschaften
  Fachgebiet Agrartechnik
  Witzenhausen
  

• Prof. Dr. Charles Bielders

  Université catholique de Louvain
  Département des sciences du milieu et de
  l'aménagement du territoire (Génie Rural)
  Louvain-la-Neuve
  Belgien
  

• Prof. Dr. Marnik Vanclooster

  Université catholique de Louvain
  Département des sciences du milieu et de
  l'aménagement du territoire (Génie Rural)
  Louvain-la-Neuve
  Belgien
  

• Prof. Dr. Herman van Keulen

  Wageningen University
  Department of Plant Science
  Wageningen
  Niederlande
  

• Dr. André Bationo

  International Center for Tropical
  Agriculture (CIAT)
  Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility
  Institute of CIAT c/o ICRAF
  Nairobi
  Kenia
  

• Prof. Dr. John Okhienaiye Agbenin

  Ahmadu Bello University
  Department of Soil Science
  Zaria
  Nigeria
  

• Dr. Michel Papaoba Sedogo

  Centre National de la Recherche
  Scientifique et Technologique (CNRST)
  Institut de l'environnement et de recherches
  agricoles (INERA Kamboinsé)
  Ouagadougou
  Burkina Faso
  

• Dr. Adama Traoré

  National Council for Agricultural
  Research (CNRA)
  Bamako
  Mali
  

• Dr. Abdou Berthé

  National Council for Agricultural
  Research (CNRA)
  Bamako
  Mali
  

• Dr. Christian Hülsebusch

  Deutsches Institut für Tropische und
  Subtropische Landwirtschaft (DITSL)
  Witzenhausen
  

• Dr. Luc Hippolyte Dossa

  Institut National de l'Environnement et
  de Recherches Agricoles (INERA)
  Urban Food Project
  Station de Farako-Ba
  Bobo-Dioulasso
  Burkina Faso