Abstract:As an essential coping strategy for providing the vital augmentation of food stocks in urban centers, there has been a considerable expansion of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Sierra Leone since the end of the civil war in 2002. In many of these urban and peri-urban cropping sites, sources of water are usually polluted by urban wastes posing potential risk of heavy metal toxicity. This study was carried out to determine the risks associated with heavy metal contamination in urban and peri-urban cropping s… Show more
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