Food security in West Africa not only depends on productivity increases in marginal rural areas, but also on enhanced use of intensively farmed agricultural “niche” lands such as the urban and peri-urban spaces. They are characterised by easy market access and input availability which allows self...
Buerkert, Andreas
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Marschner, B.
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Steiner, C.
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Schlecht, E.
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Wichern, M.
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Schareika, N.
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Lowenstein, W.
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Drescher, A.W.
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Glaser, R.
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Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Gordana
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Gnankambary, Z.
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Drechsel, Pay
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Jean-Pascal Lompo, D.
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[UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities]
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UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities
Crop growth on acid sandy soils of the Sudano-Sahelian zone is primarily limited by the low amounts of organic matter and available mineral nutrients in the topsoil. The shortening of fallow periods with population growth, the exploitation of fire wood, spatial nutrient transfers by wind and wate...
Buerkert, Andreas
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Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
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[Nutrients in the West African Sudano-Sahelian zone: Losses, transfers and role of external inputs]
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Nutrients in the West African Sudano-Sahelian zone: Losses, transfers and role of external inputs
Nutrients and virtual water in the form of food and other organic goods are transported from the rural hinterland to urban centres. In particular in developing countries, poor waste management in growing cities and the potential to recover nutrients and water for agricultural production have rais...
Akoto-Danso, Edmund K.
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Karg, H.
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Drechsel, Pay
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Buerkert, Andreas
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[Nutrient and virtual water flow analysis for Tamale, Ghana and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso]
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Nutrient and virtual water flow analysis for Tamale, Ghana and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso