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Integrated Management of Soil Fertility and Land Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa: Involving Local Communities

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https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2018.02.001
10.1016/bs.agron.2018.02.001
 
Title Integrated Management of Soil Fertility and Land Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa: Involving Local Communities
 
Creator Bado, B V
Bationo, A
 
Subject Soil Fertility
Fertilizers
African Agriculture
Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Description The soils of sub-Saharan Africa are characterized by their poverty in nutrients along with
low clay and organic carbon content and low exchange capacity. There is high pressure
on land resources with the quick growth of population and demand for food.
Maintaining the fertility of cultivated soils and land resources is a challenge. Since the
paradigm of “external input” in the 1960s and 1970s, to the latest concept of integrated
soil fertility management, most of the approaches remain crop oriented or livestock oriented
with less attention to local communities (LC), which are at the heart of land
resource management. This chapter suggests a new integrated and holistic approach
involving LC for land resources management, including cultivated soils and rangelands.
A global framework is proposed for development of management options of land
resources with LC. It is a dynamic process of participative management of lands as providers
of services for the entire community.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2018
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10971/1/Bado%20and%20Bationo_Integrated%20Mangement%20Soil-Lands%20.pdf
Bado, B V and Bationo, A (2018) Integrated Management of Soil Fertility and Land Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa: Involving Local Communities. Advances in Agronomy (TSI). pp. 1-33. ISSN 0065-2113 (In Press)