Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa

Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa
Author: Nteranya Sanginga
Publisher: CIAT
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2009
Genre: Soil fertility
ISBN: 9290592613

Forward. A call for integrated soil fertility management in Africa. Introduction. ISFM and the African farmer. Part I. The principles of ISFM: ISFM as a strategic goal, Fertilizer management within ISFM, Agro-minerals in ISFM, Organic resource management, ISFM, soil biota and soil health. Part II. ISFM practices: ISFM products and fields practices, ISFM practice in drylands, ISFM practice in savannas and woodlands, ISFM practice in the humid forest zone, Conservation Agriculture. Part III. The process of implementing ISFM: soil fertility diagnosis, soil fertility management advice, Dissemination of ISFM technologies, Designing an ISFM adoption project, ISFM at farm and landscape scales. Part IV. The social dimensions of ISFM: The role of ISFM in gender empowerment, ISFM and household nutrition, Capacity building in ISFM, ISFM in the policy arena, Marketing support for ISFM, Advancing ISFM in Africa. Appendices: Mineral nutrient contents of some common organic resources.

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

Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Management in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Author: Andre Bationo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1091
Release: 2016-08-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789402404715

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 Fertility Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

Soil Fertility Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: W. Graeme Donovan
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780821342367

World Bank Technical Paper No. 408. This report is a critical review of the technical, economic, and institutional constraints on improving soil fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the actions recommended to address them. Action plans prepared for Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Mali examine the demand for and supply of mineral fertilizers, the exploitation of local mineral resources, the prevention of soil erosion and increasing soil-water retention, and soil fertility management using organic technologies and management practices.

Replenishing Soil Fertility in Africa

Replenishing Soil Fertility in Africa
Author: R. J. Buresh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1997
Genre: Science
ISBN:

This SSSA Special Publication presents in the first chapter the new conceptual approach of replenishing soil fertility as an investment in natural resource capital. It is followed by an analysis of the magnitude of soil fertility depletion, a review of field research trials, and a perspective from temperate-region soils. These in turn are followed by three process-oriented chapters on phosphorus, nitrogen, and combining organic and inorganic nutrient inputs. The last two focus on key socioeconomic considerations, gender and environmental economics.

Minerals in Soil Environments

Minerals in Soil Environments
Author: Joe Boris Dixon
Publisher: American Society of Agronomy
Total Pages: 1290
Release: 1989
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

An introduction to soil mineralogy; Surface chemistry of soil minerals; An introduction to organic matter in mineral soils; Mineral equilibria and the soil system; Mineral occurrence in soil environments; Carboonate, halide, sulfate, and sulfide minerals; Aluminum oxides and oxyhydroxides; Iron oxides; Manganese oxides ands hydroxides; Kaolin and serpentine group minerals; The pyrophyllite-talc group; Micas; Vermiculites; Chlorites and hydroxy-interlayered vermiculite and smectite; Interstratification in layer silicates; Palygorskite and sepiolite group minerals; Zeolites in soils; Silica in soils: quartz and disordered silica polymorphs; Feldpars, olivines, pyroxenes, and amphiboles; Allophane and imogolite; Phosphate minerals; Titanium and zirconium minerals.

Fertilizer Use in African Agriculture

Fertilizer Use in African Agriculture
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821368818

The good practice guidelines - which form the basis of an interactive policymaker's tool kit included on a CD accompanying the book - relate not only to the more focused problem of encouraging increased fertilizer use by farmers, but also to the broader challenge of creating the type of enabling environment that is needed to support the emergence of efficient, dynamic and commercially viable fertilizer marketing systems."--Jacket.

Integrated Plant Nutrient Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

Integrated Plant Nutrient Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author:
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2002
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780851998855

Soil degradation and nutrient depletion have become serious threats to agricultural productivity in Africa. Soils cannot supply the quantities of nutrients required and yield levels decline rapidly once cropping commences. This book addresses these issues and includes papers from an international symposium held at Cotonou, Benin, October 9-12, 2000, organized by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria and the Department of Land Management of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. In five main parts it marks the end of a first phase of collaborative research on "Balanced Nutrient Management Systems for the Moist Savanna and Humid Forest Zones of Africa" and concludes with recommendations, providing essential reading for crop and soil scientists.

Rocks for Crops

Rocks for Crops
Author: H. Peter Van Straaten
Publisher: Guelph, Ont. : Department of Land Resource Science, University of Guelph
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2002
Genre: Minerals
ISBN: 9780889555129