Insect-based agri-food waste valorization: agricultural applications and roles of insect gut microbiota

M Mannaa, A Mansour, I Park, DW Lee… - Environmental Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Meeting the demands of the growing population requires increased food and feed
production, leading to higher levels of agri-food waste. As this type of waste seriously …

Growing use and impacts of chemical fertilizers and assessing alternative organic fertilizer sources in Ethiopia

TG Abebe, MR Tamtam, AA Abebe… - Applied and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews relevant facts and statistics about the benefits and impacts of the growing
use of chemical fertilizer with a focus on soil fertility, crop productivity, and alternative …

African soil properties and nutrients mapped at 30 m spatial resolution using two-scale ensemble machine learning

T Hengl, MAE Miller, J Križan, KD Shepherd, A Sila… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Soil property and class maps for the continent of Africa were so far only available at very
generalised scales, with many countries not mapped at all. Thanks to an increasing quantity …

Nutrient quality and maturity status of frass fertilizer from nine edible insects

D Beesigamukama, S Subramanian, CM Tanga - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Globally, there is growing interest to recycle organic waste using insect larvae into high-
quality frass fertilizer through circular economy approach. This paper presents the first …

Exploring black soldier fly frass as novel fertilizer for improved growth, yield, and nitrogen use efficiency of maize under field conditions

D Beesigamukama, B Mochoge, NK Korir… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Black soldier fly frass fertilizer (BSFFF) is increasingly gaining momentum worldwide as
organic fertilizer. However, research on its performance on crop production remains largely …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in research on site-specific nutrient management for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa

P Chivenge, S Zingore, KS Ezui, S Njoroge… - Field crops …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing fertilizer access and use is an essential component for improving crop production
and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, given the heterogeneous nature of …

Nanoparticle and ionic Zn promote nutrient loading of sorghum grain under low NPK fertilization

CO Dimkpa, JC White, WH Elmer… - Journal of agricultural …, 2017 - ACS Publications
This study evaluated the effects of ZnO nanoparticles (NP) or Zn salt amendment on
sorghum yield, macronutrient use efficiency, and grain Zn-enrichment. Amendments were …

[图书][B] Agricultural development and economic transformation: promoting growth with poverty reduction

JW Mellor - 2017 - Springer
My intention is to explain how rapid agricultural growth accelerates the economic
transformation to a modern economy and most important why it is the prime instrument for …

Understanding the intertwined nature of rising multiple risks in modern agriculture and food system

P Khatri, P Kumar, KS Shakya, MC Kirlas… - Environment …, 2024 - Springer
The current agriculture system has become complex and fragile in recent years. With an
increase in population, the demand for food is increasing, but the resources such as arable …

[HTML][HTML] Science-based decision support for formulating crop fertilizer recommendations in sub-Saharan Africa

J Rurinda, S Zingore, JM Jibrin, T Balemi, K Masuki… - Agricultural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, there is considerable spatial and temporal variability in
relations between nutrient application and crop yield, due to varying inherent soil nutrients …