“Flooding our eyes with rubbish”: urban waste management in Maputo, Mozambique

Tvedten, Inge; Candiracci, Sara

doi:10.1177/0956247818780090

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“…For this reason, the waste management in such areas is difficult, as are their associated health problems. Studies in Maputo city emphasized the deficient waste management, lack of sanitation and solid waste management system, especially in peri-urban areas, due to the deficit in containers and reduced public environmental awareness [ 17 , 42 ]. According to municipal entities, the cleaning of the markets is the vendors’ entire responsibility in each vending stand, but the Municipal City Council is responsible for the waste collection all over the city, via the PGRSS department.…”

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Handling of Fresh Vegetables: Knowledge, Hygienic Behavior of Vendors, Public Health in Maputo Markets, Mozambique

Salamandane

Fonseca

Afonso

et al. 2020

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In developing countries, markets are the main supply of horticultural products to populations, but this can pose a public health challenge due to the risk of the fecal-oral transmission of gut pathogens. This transmission is strongly associated with inadequate public sanitation or low standards of personal and domestic hygiene, and their prevalence can cause gastrointestinal diseases, which are the third leading cause of death in Mozambique. This study aims at assessing the risk for public health of horticultural products supply chain, from the farmers-vendors to the consumers, in municipal markets in Maputo-City, Mozambique. Surveys (75) were conducted on vendors and an observational analysis was performed in the markets under study. The results showed that 62% of the vendors had access to water from boreholes or artisanal sources and the issue “access to water” was significantly different between markets (p = 0.004). Of the vendors who wash their products (53.3%), only 7.5% use tap-water for this purpose, with the difference in attitudes being statistically significant between vendors in the markets (p = 0.035). The majority (60.4%) said that vegetables and fruits can cause diseases due to pesticides and only 31.3% believe that the diseases may be related to poor hygiene. Despite the vendors’ low knowledge of Good Hygiene Practices (GHP), we noticed that women have better practical assimilation of GHP when compared to men (p = 0.008). Although Maputo’s markets are struggling to achieve quality hygiene standards in a reliable and sustainable manner, their resources are limited and significantly different (p = 0.044) from market to market, and this problem remains a concern for the public-health authorities of the city. In conclusion, the provision of adequate drinking water and sewage disposal systems, together with education for health of vendors, can reduce the risk of contamination of fresh food by the more common organisms causing diarrhea in children, including intestinal parasites.

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Handling of Fresh Vegetables: Knowledge, Hygienic Behavior of Vendors, Public Health in Maputo Markets, Mozambique

Salamandane

Fonseca

Afonso

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…To realize the problem-solving solutions offered, this Community Partnership Program (PKM) activity will be carried out through five stages of activity (Tvedten & Candiracci, 2018). The method to be applied to achieve the PKM program goals / targets is a combination of several approaches, namely through; (1) Counseling and training, (2) Survey of Citizen Interest in becoming a member of a Garbage Bank by compiling a questionnaire through Google Form and distributing it to residents.…”

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Empowering Women as Waste Bank Activists in South Tangerang City

Andriyani¹,

Yuningsi

2022

ABDIMAS

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Garbage is one of the problems in the city of South Tangerang (Tangsel). Tangsel produces approximately 880 tons of waste every day. The increase in population has an impact on increasing the volume of waste from households. One of the methods used by the Tangsel city government to reduce waste is through the waste bank program since 2012 a total of 208 Waste Banks have been formed, however, only 50 percent are active. By looking at these conditions, there needs to be efforts to empower women in reactivating waste banks in Tangsel City. One of the newly developed waste banks is the “yes” waste bank. This waste bank is located in RW 10, Cipayung Village, Ciputat District, South Tangerang. The purpose of this activity is to increase independence by empowering the potential of RW 10. The target of this PKM program is to form community awareness to sort waste, train the attitudes of RW 10 residents to have a conscious behavior in sorting waste in supporting independent waste management, developing economic skills. The method that will be applied to achieve the goals / targets of the PKM program is a combination of several approaches, namely through counseling, training, mentoring. The main outputs of this activity are: Independent waste management module, handicraft made from garbage

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“…Nowadays, the world sees Europe as an "informal settlement-free continent", despite the 50 million residents in informal settlements in the eastern region [49]. Nevertheless, among the academic community, a new generation of planners is starting to draw attention to informality in Europe, learning from the Global South [50] or unexpectedly focusing on countries, such as Britain, Belgium, Poland [51].…”

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Not So Much about Informality: Emergent Challenges for Urban Planning and Design Education

Silva

2020

Sustainability

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This paper addresses the challenges faced by planning and design education programmes when focusing on more sustainable ways of dealing with global changes. While the dominant discourse addresses the fact that planning programmes discuss the Global South through the lens of planning theory and practice from the Global North, the proposal is to shift the debate and recognise that, from a complexity perspective, planning problems are not so different from region to region. The argument is that, although the theory has moved on, when discussing conceptual aspects of planning, spatial planning practice is still focused on objects rather than the relationship between them (be they buildings, streets, neighbourhoods or even cities). Assuming that urban territories are not objects and do not develop in a linear way, but rather evolve, the proposal is to reflect on how planning and design education addresses urban evolution. This paper suggests a revision of planning and design approaches to informality, given the participation in recent years of a joint studio in Bandung, Indonesia. The alternative perspective offered here involves a re-examination of concepts and deconstruction of dichotomies. The main findings rely on the interpretation of formalisation processes (in the Global North) through the lens of complexity theory, which has facilitated understanding of today’s informal settlements (in the Global South). It suggests the deconstruction of dichotomies, such as informal versus formal, thus, positing the need for a major shift on planning and design rules that focus less on objects and more on the relationship between them.

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“Flooding our eyes with rubbish”: urban waste management in Maputo, Mozambique

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

Handling of Fresh Vegetables: Knowledge, Hygienic Behavior of Vendors, Public Health in Maputo Markets, Mozambique

Handling of Fresh Vegetables: Knowledge, Hygienic Behavior of Vendors, Public Health in Maputo Markets, Mozambique

Empowering Women as Waste Bank Activists in South Tangerang City

Not So Much about Informality: Emergent Challenges for Urban Planning and Design Education

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