Barrios, E.
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Sileshi, Gudeta W.
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Shepherd, Keith D.
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Sinclair, Fergus L.
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[Agroforestry and soil health: linking trees, soil biota and ecosystem services]
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Agroforestry and soil health: linking trees, soil biota and ecosystem services
80% of arable land in Africa has low soil fertility and suffers from physical soil problems. Additionally, significant amounts of nutrients are lost every year due to unsustainable soil management practices. This is partially the result of insufficient use of soil management knowledge. To help br...
Hengl, Tomislav
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Heuvelink, Gerard B.M.
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Kempen, Bas
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Leenaars, Johan G.B.
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Walsh, Markus G
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Shepherd, Keith D.
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Sila, Andrew
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MacMillan, Robert A
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Mendes de Jesus, Jorge
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Tamene, Lulseged
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Tondoh, Jérôme E.
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[Mapping soil properties of Africa at 250 m resolution: random forests significantly improve current predictions]
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Mapping soil properties of Africa at 250 m resolution: random forests significantly improve current predictions
Soils are increasingly recognized as major contributors to ecosystem services such as food production and climate regulation (1, 2), and demand for up-to-date and relevant soil information is soaring. But communicating such information among diverse audiences remains challenging because of incons...
Sánchez, P.A.
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Ahamed, S
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Carre, F
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Hartemink, A.E.
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Hempel, J
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Huising, Jeroen
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Lagacherle, P
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McBratney, AB
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McKenzie, N
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Mendonca-Santos, ML
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Minasny, B
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Montanarella, L
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Okoth, Peter F.
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Palm, C.A.
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Sachs, JD
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Shepherd, Keith D.
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Vagen, T.G.
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Walsh, M
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Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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Zhang, GL
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[Digital soil map of the world]
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Digital soil map of the world
Waithaka, M.M.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Shepherd, Keith D.
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Stoorvogel, J.J.
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Salasya, B.
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Ndiwa, Nicholas N.
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Bekele, N.
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Croucher, M.
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Karanja, S.
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Booltink, H.W.G.
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[System prototyping and impact assessment for sustainable alternatives in mixed farming systems in high potential areas of eastern Africa]
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System prototyping and impact assessment for sustainable alternatives in mixed farming systems in high potential areas of eastern Africa
Milne, Eleanor
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Aynekulu, Ermias
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Bationo, B. André
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Batjes, Niels H.
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Boone, Randall B.
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Conant, Richard T.
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Davies, Jonathan
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Hanan, Niall
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Hoag, Dana
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Herrick, Jeffrey E.
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Knausenberger, Walter
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Neely, Constance
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Njoka, Jesse
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Ngugi, Moffatt
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Parton, Bill
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Paustian, Keith
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Reid, Robin S.
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Said, Mohammed Yahya
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Shepherd, Keith D.
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Swift, David
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Williams, Stephen
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Miller, Sue
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Nkonya, Ephraim M.
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[Grazing lands in sub-Saharan Africa and their potential role in climate change mitigation: What we do and don't know]
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Grazing lands in sub-Saharan Africa and their potential role in climate change mitigation: What we do and don't know
Technological interventions to address the problem of poor productivity of smallholder agricultural systems must be designed to target socially diverse and spatially heterogeneous farms and farming systems. This paper proposes a categorisation of household diversity based on a functional typology...
Tittonell, Pablo A.
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Muriuki, A.
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Shepherd, Keith D.
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Mugendi, D.
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Kaizzi, K.C.
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Okeyo, J.
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Coe, R.
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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[The diversity of rural livelihoods and their influence on soil fertility in agricultural systems of East Africa – A typology of smallholder farms]
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The diversity of rural livelihoods and their influence on soil fertility in agricultural systems of East Africa – A typology of smallholder farms
Herrick, Jeffrey E.
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Kevin C. U.
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Jason W. K.
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Boos, J.
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Johnson, M.V.
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Shepherd, Keith D.
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Hempel , J.
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Davies, J.
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Guerra, J. L.
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Kosnik, C.
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Kimiti. D.W.
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Losinyen, Abraham E.
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Muller, K
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Norfleet, L.
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Ozor, N.
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Reinsch, T.
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Sarukhan, J.
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West, L. T.
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Bestelmeyer, B.T.
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[The global Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS): Supporting evidence-based, site-specific land use and management through cloud computing, mobile applications, and crowdsourcing]
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The global Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS): Supporting evidence-based, site-specific land use and management through cloud computing, mobile applications, and crowdsourcing
Heterogeneity in soil fertility in these smallholder systems is caused by both inherent soil-landscape and human-induced variability across farms differing in resources and practices. Interventions to address the problem of poor soil fertility in Africa must be designed to target such diversity a...
Tittonell, Pablo A.
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Muriuki, A.
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Klapwijk, C.J.
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Shepherd, Keith D.
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Coe, R.
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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[Soil Heterogeneity and Soil Fertility Gradients in Smallholder Agricultural Systems of the East African Highlands]
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Soil Heterogeneity and Soil Fertility Gradients in Smallholder Agricultural Systems of the East African Highlands
Land health surveillance is a methodological framework for measuring and monitoring land health�the capacity of land to sustain delivery of ecosystem services�for the purpose of targeting agroforestry and other sustainable land management in landscapes, and assessing their impacts. It is modelled...
Vagen, T.G.
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Davery, F.A.
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Shepherd, Keith D.
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[Land Health Surveillance: Mapping Soil Carbon in Kenyan Rangelands]
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Land Health Surveillance: Mapping Soil Carbon in Kenyan Rangelands
As part of DFID's contribution to the G8 initiative on Open Data for Agriculture, a broad survey of key stakeholders in sustainable African agriculture was conducted to assess current and emerging trends related to data collection, processing, and dissemination. Stakeholders that promote and supp...
Clapp, A.
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DauSchmidt, N.
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Millar, M.
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Hubbard, D.
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Shepherd, Keith D.
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[A survey and analysis of the data requirements for stakeholders in African agriculture]
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A survey and analysis of the data requirements for stakeholders in African agriculture