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A community participatory intervention model to reduce the health risks from biogas wastewater in Hanam Province, Vietnam

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Title A community participatory intervention model to reduce the health risks from biogas wastewater in Hanam Province, Vietnam
 
Creator Luu Quoc Toan
Nguyen Mai Huong
Nguyen Tien Thanh
Pham Thi Huong Giang
Hanh Tran-Thi-Tuyet
Tran Minh Hang
Dinh Xuan Tung
Phuc Pham Duc
Hung Nguyen-Viet
 
Subject environment
health
 
Description In Vietnam, using biogas to treat livestock waste is common, in particular on small holder farms. However, most small holder farms do not know how to use biogas correctly and wastewater can affect health and the environment. Using a participatory approach with farmers and other stakeholders we developed and implemented a set of interventions in Hanam province to reduce health risks from biogas wastewater. Twenty-four pig farmers were selected as a "core group" to be instrumental in developing the interventions and training other farmers to correctly use biogas. The intervention model was piloted for 6 months. Several outputs were obtained including i) approval and enforcement of a "huong uoc - village law" on environmental protection; ii) training of 24 farmers from the core group in communication skills to share information on using biogas; iii) development of a 6-step program of pig cage cleaning to limit waste loaded to biogas to improve the efficiency of biogas production; iv) a health monitoring books for humans and animals for use by families in the community. The results provided evidence that applying the participatory approach can lead to improved knowledge and practices of farmer using biogas and can reduce the health risks from biogas wastewater.
 
Date 2016-12
2017-01-16T20:20:39Z
2017-01-16T20:20:39Z
 
Type Poster
 
Identifier Luu Quoc Toan, Nguyen Mai Huong, Nguyen Tien Thanh, Pham Thi Huong Giang, Hanh Tran-Thi-Tuyet, Tran Minh Hang, Dinh Xuan Tung, Phuc Pham-Duc and Hung Nguyen-Viet. 2016. A community participatory intervention model to reduce the health risks from biogas wastewater in Hanam Province, Vietnam. Poster presented at the 4th International One Health Congress and 6th Biennial Congress of the International Association for Ecology and Health (One Health EcoHealth 2016), Melbourne, Australia, 3–7 December 2016. Hanoi, Vietnam: Hanoi University of Public Health.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78814
https://www.slideshare.net/ILRI/community-participatory-model
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Hanoi University of Public Health