Since 2004, there has been a series of initiatives in Zimbabwe to promote conservation
agriculture (CA) through various donor-funded relief initiatives with the aim of improving crop …

Next to drought, poor soil fertility is the single biggest cause of hunger in Africa.
ICRISATZimbabwe has been working for the past 10 years to encourage small-scale …

Poor soil fertility and erratic rains are major constraints to crop production in semi‐arid
environments. In the smallholder farming systems of sub‐Saharan Africa, these constraints …

Crop production in maize-based smallholder farming systems of Southern Africa is
hampered by lack of options for efficiently managing limited and different quality organic …

Introduction Managing soil fertility remains one of the major concerns of smallholder farmers
in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In order to understand the adoption potential of recommended …

Next to drought, poor soil fertility is the single biggest cause of hunger in Africa. Despite this,
smallholder farmers use very little manure, and less so, the recommended inorganic …

A number of technological packages are introduced overtime to achieve sustainable
productivity but their adoption is very low. The reason behind this is that majority of farmers …

Thirteen million people currently require emergency food aid due to drought in southern
Africa (FAO 2002). In Zimbabwe alone, a joint mission of the United Nations Food and …

Next to drought, poor soil fertility is the single biggest cause of hunger in Africa. Despite this,
smallholder farmers use very little manure, and less so, the recommended inorganic …

Food Conference 1974). When Henry Kissenger made this statement the first Green
Revolution was at its peak, and there was a great deal of optimism over technical …