3. Urban and peri-urban agriculture
• Increasing in both low- and high income countries
• It involves approximately 800 million people and
produces 15-20 % of the food in the world
• Economically crucial for many poor smallholders
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4. Urban animal farming
Opportunitues
• Closeness to the market
• Possibility to use urban
wastes and waste water
• Women can combine it with
household work
• It is an opportunity to provide
food for the family and an
extra income
Challenges
• Local markets with living and
dead animals
• High density of people and
animals
• Supply of feed
• Disposal of waste and
manure
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7. Common project:
Potential disease transmission at an
early level in the food chain
aim:
• increase our knowledge of how to use manure as
fertilizer without spreading diseases,
• increase access to feed of high quality without
transmitting infections to livestock.
8. Vermicomposting
• Study occurrence of
known and unknown
viruses and bacteria in:
• earth worms that can be
used for feed
• compost materials used
as fertilizer
Photo:Björn Vinnerås
Photo:Cecilia Lalander
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9. What have we achieved?
• How to better utilise available feed resources for
livestock
• How to convert manure to feed
• Data on risk of zoonotic infections in the food
chain
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10. Holistic approach needed to solve challenges with
urban livestock production with the final aim to
increase food security
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