Put the shit in the ground: How ecological sanitation can save lives, feed the world and reverse climate change.

该项目将开始审查EcoSan产品对土壤系统和作物生长影响的现有知识。随后将在两个国家进行农业田间试验，为这一知识库增加更多的主要证据。最后，将使用理论模型来预测这种做法在更大范围内的潜力。这项研究的直接成果将是更好地了解排泄物土地应用的好处，并确定不同发展目标之间的联系，这将在更广泛的发展讨论中增加对生态卫生的宣传。随着时间的推移，在该领域进一步研究的支持下，这可能导致为EcoSan制定更有力的准则、标准和认证计划，这将有助于个人、社区、农民、讲卫生运动从业者和政府更广泛地采用。反过来，这将改善公共卫生、土壤健康、粮食安全和减缓气候变化。

The project will begin with a review existing knowledge of the impacts of EcoSan products on soil systems and crop growth. This will be followed by agricultural field trials in two countries to add more primary evidence to this pool of knowledge. Finally theoretical modelling will be used to try to predict the potential for this practice at a larger scaleThe direct outcomes of this research will be a better understanding of the benefits of land application of excreta, and identification of linkages between different development goals, which will increase advocacy for EcoSan within wider development discourse. In time, and with support from further research in the area, this could lead to the development of more robust guidelines, standards and certification schemes for EcoSan which will facilitate wider adoption by individuals, communities, farmers, WASH practitioners and governments. In turn this will improve public health, soil health, food security and climate change mitigation.