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Food-insecure households in many countries depend on international aid to alleviate acute shocks and chronic shortages. Some food security programmes (including Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program–PSNP – which provides a case study for this article) have integrated aid in exchange for labour...


Woolf, DominicSolomon, DawitLehmann, Johannes[Land restoration in food security programmes: synergies with climate change mitigation]Land restoration in food security programmes: synergies with climate change mitigation
Lehmann, JohannesGaunt, JRondón, Marco Antonio[Bio-char sequestration in terrestrial ecosystem: a review]Bio-char sequestration in terrestrial ecosystem: a review

We describe for the first time a current indigenous soil management system in West Africa, in which targeted waste deposition transforms highly weathered, nutrient‐ and carbon‐poor tropical soils into enduringly fertile, carbon‐rich black soils, hereafter “African Dark Earths” (AfDE). In comparis...


Solomon, DawitLehmann, JohannesFraser, James ALeach, MelissaAmanor, KojoFrausin, VictoriaKristiansen, Søren MMillimouno, DominiqueFairhead, James[Indigenous African soil enrichment as a climate‐smart sustainable agriculture alternative]Indigenous African soil enrichment as a climate‐smart sustainable agriculture alternative

The socio-economic values of fertile and carbon-rich Dark Earth soils are well described from the Amazon region. Very recently, Dark Earth soils were also identified in tropical West Africa, with comparable beneficial soil properties and plant growth-promoting effects. The impact of this manageme...


Camenzind, TessaHammer, Edith CLehmann, JohannesSolomon, DawitHorn, SebastianRillig, Matthias CHempel, Stefan[Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal and soil microbial communities in African Dark Earths]Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal and soil microbial communities in African Dark Earths

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