Overview
This project aimed to assess the potential to ‘close the loop’ in Pacific Island agriculture by converting domestic and agricultural wastewater into a stable, pathogen-free, organic fertiliser.
Agricultural communities throughout the Pacific Islands are reliant on expensive imported fertilisers. Ironically, nutrient-rich domestic wastewaters are discharged into groundwater and coastal lagoons where they degrade water quality and impact human health. The project undertook a comparative, gender-balanced scoping study in Tuvalu and Vanuatu, two islands with contrasting socio-economic conditions, and assessed the suitability and community acceptability of different waste streams and treatments in order to determine the feasibility and uptake of recovered wastewater nutrients for agriculture in the Pacific.
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