The Determinants of Organic Fertilizers Use in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis

Abstract

International symposium: Urban and peri-urban horticulture in the century of cities 38 • Versailles area (France): recycling stable manure and wastewater treatment sludge on cultivated plots • Réunion Island (France, Indian Ocean): organizing and assessing the recycling of various wastes at a territory level The expected result to be delivered when the project is completed is a generic methodology that will make it possible for agronomists working with rural stakeholders to create highly efficient cropping and farming systems based on the use of a wide range of organic wastes.

Intricacies of Organic and Chemical Fertilizer Application on Arable Land Crop Production in Cameroon

“…Meanwhile, variables such as land property rights, membership in farmers' cooperatives, food cultivation, farm income and the distance between farmers' dwellings and their farms have a significant effect on compost used in urban and peri-urban areas. Further, it also shows that variables like land-property rights, food cultivation, the available chemical input budget and the distance between dwellings and farms explain fertilization at all levels (Sotamenou & Parrot, 2014).…”

“…In Cameroon, while the women focus on crop production, the men work more emphasized on cash crop production, which is usually large and vast farms and necessitates fertilizer use. Sotamenou & Parrot (2014) explained that land pressures and pollution resulting from the solid waste generation in urban and peri-urban agriculture become real issues in agriculture in Cameroon. Urban and peri-urban agriculture activities are potential regular users of large quantities of household wastes and compost.…”

“…In Cameroon, most studies in fertilizer and crop production are in agronomy (Teboh, 2006). It is also essential that has attempted econometrically to link issues related to fertilizer and agricultural production as done by (Sotamenou & Parrot, 2014). They analyzed the determinants of organic Fertilizer use in urban and peri-urban agriculture.…”

An original and efficient fertilizer for cherry tomato plants grown in urban agriculture: Feral pigeon guano

“…In urban agriculture, different methods are often used for improving the production; it includes, for example, chemical fertilizers (De Bon et al, 2010;Sotamenou & Parrot, 2014) or compost (De Bon et al, 2010;Goldstein et al, 2016;Hargreaves et al, 2008;Sotamenou & Parrot, 2014). However, chemical fertilizers seem to be increasingly neglected because they represent a risk for the environment (Savci, 2012;Sharma & Singhvi, 2017) and human health (Schnug & Lottermoser, 2013;Sharma & Singhvi, 2017).…”