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Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Management in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1051

Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Management in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

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.

Soil and Soil Fertility Management Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Soil and Soil Fertility Management Research in Sub-Saharan Africa

Judicious soil fertility management is crucial for sustainable crop production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This book describes the various concepts and approaches underlying soil and soil fertility management research in SSA over the last fifty years. It provides examples of important innovations generated and assesses the position of research within the research-to-development continuum, including how innovations have been validated with the intended beneficiaries. Using the experience of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) as a case study, the authors analyse how processes, partnerships and other factors have affected research priorities, the deliv...

Below-ground Interactions in Tropical Agroecosystems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

Below-ground Interactions in Tropical Agroecosystems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: CABI

Below-grownd interactions are often seen as the 'dark side' of agroecosystems, especially when more than one crop is grown on the same piece of land at he same time. this book aims to review the amount of light he past decade of research has shed on this topic. It also aims to review ohw far we have come in unravelling the positive and negative aspects of these interactions and how, in dialogue with farmers, we can use the generic principles that are now emerging to look for sita-specifics solutions.

Ethical Issues in Poverty Alleviation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Ethical Issues in Poverty Alleviation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-09-23
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book explores the philosophical, and in particular ethical, issues concerning the conceptualization, design and implementation of poverty alleviation measures from the local to the global level. It connects these topics with the ongoing debates on social and global justice, and asks what an ethical or normative philosophical perspective can add to the economic, political, and other social science approaches that dominate the main debates on poverty alleviation. Divided into four sections, the volume examines four areas of concern: the relation between human rights and poverty alleviation, the connection between development and poverty alleviation, poverty within affluent countries, and ...

Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 685

Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics

Long-awaited second edition of classic textbook, brought completely up to date, for courses on tropical soils, and reference for scientists and professionals.

Advances in Agronomy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Advances in Agronomy

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy. As always, the subjects covered are varied and exemplary of the myriad of subject matter dealt with by this long-running serial. - Maintains the highest impact factor among serial publications in agriculture - Presents timely reviews on important agronomy issues - Enjoys a long-standing reputation for excellence in the field

Competition for Resources in a Changing World New Drive for Rural Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 677
Universal Food Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Universal Food Security

What would it take to achieve a genuinely food-secure world—one without hunger or malnutrition, where everyone gets to consume the right quantity and quality of food to live a healthy, active, and productive life? Bringing about such a future requires transforming how our food is grown, managed, and distributed. From production to consumption, food systems must be sustainable, halting environmental degradation and even repairing the damage we have previously done. This book provides an accessible guide to making healthy diets from sustainable food systems available to all. Glenn Denning bridges the divisive worlds of science, policy, and practice. He synthesizes the most relevant literatur...

Agroforestry Forum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 22

Agroforestry Forum

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Nitrogen use to improve sustainable yields in agricultural systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 139

Nitrogen use to improve sustainable yields in agricultural systems

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