El marco de saneamiento Limpio y Verde para mejorar la salud y la producción agrícola: perspectivas para Bolivia

The Stockholm Environment Institute's 'Clean and Green' (L&V) framework moves beyond eliminating open defecation to integrate health risk management with the safe reuse of productive waste. The framework consists of a 'Clean path' to reduce pathogen exposure and a 'Green path' to recover nutrients (N, P, K) and organic matter from human and animal waste. Following pilot tests in Burkina Faso, the document argues for the framework's application in Bolivia, where rural poverty is high and agricultural productivity could be enhanced by recycling nutrients from human excreta, which is estimated to provide the equivalent of 40 kg of chemical fertilizer per household annually.

• The 'Clean and Green' (L&V) framework is structured into two primary pathways: the 'Clean path,' which focuses on reducing health risks through the management of fecal sludge, animal excrement, solid waste, and greywater, and the 'Green path,' which aims to safely reuse nutrients like nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) from productive waste.
• Implementation of the L&V framework utilizes participatory tools for diagnosis and capacity building, such as 'Resource Flow Mapping' to identify waste streams and 'Fertilizer Calculation' to demonstrate the monetary and agricultural value of excreted nutrients.
• Progress monitoring for the L&V framework uses a traffic-light system (green, yellow, red) based on indicators across seven 'Clean' components and seven 'Green' components at the household level, evaluating quantity, safety, and efficacy of resource recovery.
• In Bolivia, where 30% of the population is rural and only 44% of rural inhabitants have access to basic sanitation, the safe use of nutrients from a typical household (averaging 3.3 people) could provide approximately 40 kg of chemical fertilizer equivalent per year.
• The framework is particularly relevant for Bolivia given current environmental pressures, including a drought that officially affected 176 municipalities, mostly rural, as of November 2023.
• Successful implementation of the L&V framework requires close collaboration with the agricultural sector to provide technical guidance on the safe and efficient application of fecal compost and urine to crops.

APA

Dagerskog, L., Dickin, S., & Soto, A. (2024). El marco de saneamiento Limpio y Verde para mejorar la salud y la producción agrícola: perspectivas para Bolivia. Stockholm Environment Institute. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/240308b-pr161-ortiz-diaz-dagerskog-limpio-y-verde-bolivia-2312e.pdf

Chicago

Dagerskog, Linus, Sarah Dickin, and Adriana Soto. El marco de saneamiento Limpio y Verde para mejorar la salud y la producción agrícola: perspectivas para Bolivia. Stockholm Environment Institute, 2024. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/240308b-pr161-ortiz-diaz-dagerskog-limpio-y-verde-bolivia-2312e.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{dagerskog2024marco, author = {Dagerskog, Linus and Dickin, Sarah and Soto, Adriana}, title = {{El marco de saneamiento Limpio y Verde para mejorar la salud y la producción agrícola: perspectivas para Bolivia}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2024}, month = mar, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/240308b-pr161-ortiz-diaz-dagerskog-limpio-y-verde-bolivia-2312e.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }