This paper focuses on the cassava-maize cropping systems in East Africa, the benefits of cassava cultivation in improving soil fertility and different options in improving sustainability. The use of models to show the improvement of soil fertility when planting cassava and that cassava grows bett...
Coffee and banana are important cash and food crops in Uganda and the surrounding East African highland region. Production is dominated by smallholders that have limited arable land and often coffee and banana are intercropped. No significant research and development efforts have been undertaken ...
Jassogne, Laurence T.P.
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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Wanyama, I.
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Baret, P.
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[Perceptions and outlook on intercropping coffee with banana as an opportunity for smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda]
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Perceptions and outlook on intercropping coffee with banana as an opportunity for smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda
The soils of South western Nigeria are rapidly degrading due to nutrient mining, soil loss, inappropriate land use, low inherent soil fertility coupled with adverse effects of climate change. These have resulted to persistent low yields and farmers’ poverty. The current farming systems have faile...
Wortmann, Charles S.
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Luze, L.
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Chirwa, Rowland
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Rachier, Gideon O.
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Rabary B.
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Ndakidemi, P.
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Mkuchu, M.
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Muimui, Kennedy K.
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Nabuhungu, L.
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[Bean improvement for low fertility soils in Africa: The bilfa II]
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Bean improvement for low fertility soils in Africa: The bilfa II
The increasing attention paid to local soil knowledge results from a greater recognition that farmer knowledge can offer many insights into the sustainable management of tropical soils and that the integration of local and technical knowledge systems helps extension workers and scientists work mo...
Barrios, E.
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Delve, Robert J.
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Bekunda, Mateete A.
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Mowo, J.
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Agunda, J
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Ramisch, Joshua J.
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Trejo Tercero, M.T.
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Thomas, Richard J.
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[Indicators of soil quality: a South-South development of a methdological guide for linking local and technical knowledge]
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Indicators of soil quality: a South-South development of a methdological guide for linking local and technical knowledge
Esilaba, Anthony O.
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Nyende, P
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Nalukenge, G
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Byalebeka, J.B.
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Delve, Robert J.
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Ssali, H.
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[Resource flows and nutrient balances in smallholder farming systems in Mayuge district, Eastern Uganda]
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Resource flows and nutrient balances in smallholder farming systems in Mayuge district, Eastern Uganda
Sampling and analysis or visual examination of soil to assess its status and use potential is widely practiced from plot to national scales. However, the choice of relevant soil attributes and interpretation of measurements are not straightforward, because of the complexity and site-specificity o...
Bünemann, Else K.
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Bongiorno, Giulia
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Bai, Zhanguo
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Creamer, Rachel E.
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Deyn, Gerlinde de
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Goede, Ron G.M. de
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Fleskens, Luuk
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Geissen, Violette
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Kuyper, Thomas W.
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Mäder, Paul
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Pulleman, Mirjam
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Sukkel, Wijnand
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Groenigen, Jan Willem van
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Brussaard, Lijbert
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[Soil quality – A critical review]
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Soil quality – A critical review
The fumigation–incubation (FI) and the fumigation–extraction (FE) ninhydrin methods for quantifying the microbial biomass pool were tested and the relationships between microbial biomass characteristics and soil organic matter fractions (separated following particle size) investigated for a range...
Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Nwoke, O.C.
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Sanginga, N.
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Merckx, R.
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[Evaluation of methods for measuring microbial biomass C and N and relationship between microbial biomass with soil organic matter particle size classes in West African soils]
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Evaluation of methods for measuring microbial biomass C and N and relationship between microbial biomass with soil organic matter particle size classes in West African soils
Soil physicochemical properties were determined for soils under cropland and forest at the headquarters of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria to examine the 30-year effects of different land use on the fertility of five soil series toposequences un...
Watanabe, Y.
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Kikuno, H.
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Asiedu, Robert
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Masunaga, T.
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Wakatsuki, T.
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[Comparison of physicochemical properties of soils under contrasting land use systems in Southwestern Nigeria]
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Comparison of physicochemical properties of soils under contrasting land use systems in Southwestern Nigeria
Kearney, Sean P.
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Fonte, Steven J.
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Salomon, Abraham
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Six, Johan
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Scow, Kate M.
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[Forty percent revenue increase by combining organic and mineral nutrient amendments in Ugandan smallholder market vegetable production]
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Forty percent revenue increase by combining organic and mineral nutrient amendments in Ugandan smallholder market vegetable production