Format:
Online-Ressource
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v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Biomedical and Life Sciences
ISBN:
9781402057601
Content:
Food insecurity is a fundamental challenge to human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural production leads to low incomes, poor nutrition, vulnerability to risk and threat and lack of empowerment. This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of agricultural research and development experiences from sub-Saharan Africa. The text highlights practical lessons from the sub-Saharan Africa region.
Content:
Food insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural production, results in low incomes, poor nutrition, vulnerability to risks and lack of empowerment. Land degradation and soil fertility depletion are considered the major threats to food security and natural resource conservation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Investments in technology, policy and institutional reforms are needed to increase agricultural productivity to ensure food security and sustained national economies. Past research has generated numerous soil fertility management technologies which if adopted could propel the African continent out of the poverty trap. However, these technologies have had little, if any, impact due to low adoption by the smallholder farmers. Africa needs to break the cycle between poverty and land degradation by employing strategies that empower farmers economically and promoting sustainable agricultural intensification using efficient, effective and affordable agricultural technologies. In addition, farmers and local entrepreneurs need to be linked to markets to increase their capacities to invest in sustainable land management. All these requirements need to be achieved through an integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) approach that is holistic and dynamic in order to foster both technical and institutional change.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Front Matter; A critical analysis of challenges and opportunities for soil fertility restoration in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa; Appropriate technologies to replenish soil fertility in southern Africa; Available technologies to replenish soil fertility in East Africa; Integrated Agricultural Research for Development: contributing to the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (IAR4D in CAADP); From Thousands to Millions: Accelerating Agricultural Intensification and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Soil science, population growth and food production: some historical developmentsDevelopment of an arable layer: A key concept for better management of infertile tropical savanna soils; Food Security in Africa: The Challenges of Researchers in the 21st Century; Background, Current status and the African Context of the International Nitrogen Initiative; Within-farm soil fertility gradients affect response of maize to fertiliser application in western Kenya; Characterisation of soil degradation under intensive rice production in Office du Niger zone of Mali
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Soil fertility issues in the Blue Nile Valley, EthiopiaOvercoming phosphorus deficiency in soils of Eastern Africa: recent advances and challenges; Relative contribution of trees and crops to soil carbon content in a parkland system in Burkina Faso using variations in natural 13C abundance; Mineral fertilizers, organic amendments and crop rotation managements for soil fertility maintenance in the Guinean zone of Burkina Faso (West Africa); Effect of planting technique and amendment type on pearl millet yield, nutrient uptake, and water use on degraded land in Niger
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Short-term effects of cover crops on stem borers and maize yield in the humid forest of southern CameroonImproving cereal productivity and farmers' income using a strategic application of fertilizers in West Africa; Advances in improving Agricultural Profitability and Overcoming Land Degradation in Savanna and Hillside Agroecosystems of Tropical America; Integrating legumes to improve N cycling on smallholder farms in sub-humid Zimbabwe: resource quality, biophysical and environmental limitations; Meat and bone meal as nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer to cereals and rye grass
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Screening Legume Green Manure for Climatic Adaptability and Farmer Acceptance in the Semi-Arid Agro-ecological Zone of UgandaNutrient flows in smallholder production systems in the humid forest zone of southern Cameroon; Management of improved fallows for soil fertility enhancement in the western highlands of Cameroon; Integrated Soil Fertility Management: Use of NUTMON to Quantify Nutrient Flows in Farming Systems in Central Kenya; Optimizing Soil Fertility Gradients in the Enset ( Ensete ventricosum )labelChapter26 Systems of the Ethiopian Highlands: Trade-offs and Local Innovations
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Consequences of Field Management and Soil Erosion on the Sustainability of Large Scale Coffee Farming in Kiambu
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781402057595
Language:
English
Subjects:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science
Keywords:
Subsaharisches Afrika
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Bodenbiologie
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Bodenfruchtbarkeit
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4020-5760-1
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