Traditional farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa depend primarily on mining soil nutrients.
The African green revolution aims to intensify agriculture through the dissemination of …

Large changes have taken place in smallholder farming systems in South Asia's coastal
areas in recent decades, particularly related to cropping intensity, input availability, climate …

Climbing bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) production in Kenya is greatly undermined by low
soil fertility, especially in agriculturally prolific areas. The use of effective native rhizobia …

Recent debates on indigenous knowledge have tended to focus on building up even more
case study material of good practice in indigenous knowledge at the local level; the …

The need to promote fertiliser use by African smallholder farmers to counteract the current
decline in per capita food production is widely recognised. But soil heterogeneity results in …

Soil degradation is widely considered to be a key factor undermining agricultural livelihoods
in the developing world and contributing to rural out-migration. To date, however, few …

There are limited reports about the impacts of long-term cropping and land-use systems
(CLUS) on soil properties and nutrient stocks under smallholder farmers' conditions in …

A critique of the soil health framework is that biological indicators currently lag behind
chemical and physical indicators of soil health. Incorporating nematode communities into the …

Farmer adoption of soil technologies has been commonly explored in the literature using
binary models, which significantly simplifies the multi-dimensional nature of soil technology …

Assessment of soil quality (SQ) indicators that detect soil degradation in different land use
and soil management systems (LUSMS) is desirable to achieve sustainable management …