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Sanitation for Food Security

Photo credit: United Nations. Sanitation for Food Security. 19 November 2013. Sanitation for food security. World Health Summit defines Food Security as  “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life”.

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Sanitation for Food Security

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  1. Photo credit: United Nations Sanitation for Food Security 19 November 2013

  2. Sanitation for food security • World Health Summit defines Food Security as “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life” sanitation and food security facts Photo credit: United Nations

  3. Sanitation for food security • 40% of people in the world still do not have a toilet • 925 million are malnourished world wide sanitation and food security facts Photo credit: Water.org

  4. Sanitation for food security • If faeces are collected in sanitary facilities, they can be used as a valuable resource in agriculture • Productive sanitation means making use of human excreta for nutrients, organic matter, water and energy sanitation contributes to food security Photo credit: IARC

  5. Sanitation for food security • Productive systems result in: • Recovery of nutrients and energy in household wastewater, minimizing consumption and pollution of water resources • Improved soil fertility • Nutrients and soil fertility increase agricultural productivity and therefore food security Why sanitation leads to food security • Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi_CIMMYT3

  6. Sanitation for food security • Source-separated urine: produces a fertilizer rich in nitrogen • Struvite production: produces a mineral powder with high fertilizer value from urine • Arborloo: resultant nutrient rich substrate left by a pit latrine is used to grow a tree • Dry Urine Diverting Toilet: produces urine fertiliser and manure • Wastewater recycling: raw or partially treated wastewater spread on fields or used in irrigation Technologies for productive sanitation • Photo credit: WeSustainLife.org Photo credit: WeSustainLife.org

  7. Sanitation for food security Improve your family’s lives – Stand up for your right to a toilet! www.sanitationdrive2015.org Leanne Burney, UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and SanitationEmail: burneyl@un.org Therese Dooley, UNICEFEmail: tdooley@unicef.org Amanda Marlin, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative CouncilEmail: amanda.marlin@wsscc.org Corinne Schuster-Wallace, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health Email: corinne.schusterwallace@unu.edu

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