Managing Nutrient Cycles to Sustain Soil Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa

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dc.contributorTropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIATen
dc.contributor.authorBationo, A. (ed.)en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialSub-Saharan Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:08:21Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:08:21Zen
dc.date.issued2004en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractSoil fertility degradation still remains the single most important constraint to food production in sub-Saharan Africa and an efficient cycling of nutrients among crops, animals and soil is crucial to the sustained productivity of the farming systems. Emerging evidence indicate that there is considerable consensus on guiding principles for integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) as the more pragmatic and feasible approach to overcome the limitations of past research approaches. As a holistic approach to research on soil fertility, ISFM embraces responses to the full range of driving factors and consequences, namely biological, physical, chemical, social, economic and political aspects of soil fertility decline. The approach encompasses nutrient deficiencies, inappropriate germplasm and cropping system design, pest-disease interaction with soil fertility, linkage between land degradation and poverty and global policies, incentives as well as institutional failures. Such long-term soil fertility management strategy requires anen
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dc.identifier411en
dc.identifier.isbn9966-24-075-6en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65475en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherNairobi, Kenya: Academy Science Publishersen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ciat.cgiar.org/tsbf_institute/book_mgmt_nutri_cycles.htmen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holdercopyright AfNet-CIAT All rights reserved, 2004en
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dc.subjectSoil degradationen
dc.subjectSoil erosionen
dc.subjectSoil managementen
dc.subjectSoil fertilityen
dc.subjectNutrient recyclingen
dc.subjectSoil organic matteren
dc.subjectSubsistence productionen
dc.subjectIntegrated soil fertility managementen
dc.subjectBelowground biodiversityen
dc.subjectParticipatory researchen
dc.subjectEcosystem Farm/Enterprise Scaleen
dc.titleManaging Nutrient Cycles to Sustain Soil Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africaen
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