The primary cause of soil degradation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is expansion and
intensification of agriculture in efforts to feed its growing population. Effective solutions will …

Conservation agriculture is claimed to be a panacea for the problems of poor agricultural
productivity and soil degradation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is actively promoted by …

Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs
despite the fact that most poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to …

Intensification of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is necessary to address rural
poverty and natural resource degradation. Integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) is a …

Yield gaps are pervasive in African smallholder agriculture, and are large for almost all
crops in all regions. There is consensus that poor soil fertility and nutrient availability are the …

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 …

African farming systems are highly heterogeneous: between agroecological and
socioeconomic environments, in the wide variability in farmers' resource endowments and in …

Technological interventions to address the problem of poor productivity of smallholder
agricultural systems must be designed to target socially diverse and spatially heterogeneous …

The farm-level economics of conservation agriculture (zero tillage, mulching and crop
rotation) are described, reviewed and modelled. The economics are defined broadly to …

The 4‰ initiative launched by the French government at COP21 in Paris in December 2015
aspires to increase global soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks at a rate of 0.4% per year. We …