Biochar refers to the black carbon that is produced by the process of slow pyrolysis and act
as a vehicle of carbon sequestration from renewable and sustainable biomass. This review …

Climate change is expected to alter pressure from insect pests and the effectiveness of
insect pollinators across diverse agricultural systems globally. In response to warming …

The development of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is crucial in ensuring the creation of a
low-carbon society and mitigation of climate change. These tasks require concerted actions …

Soil and crop productivity cannot be maintained unless declining soil fertility is replenished.
A three-year factorial experiment using a split-split-plot design, replicated three times, was …

Extreme climates and the unpredictability of the weather are significant obstacles to
agricultural productivity. This study is the first attempt to explore the capacity of …

Smallholder farmers are important in the fight against hunger and undernutrition in rural
communities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Even though agriculture contributes close to 23 …

Agricultural food production in Africa is low and cannot sustain its ever-growing population.
Climate change-induced high rainfall variability and temperature fluctuations are blamed for …

Cereal straws, such as barley straw, wheat straw, maize, corncobs, corn stove, miscanthus,
rice straw, sugarcane bagasse, manure, seaweeds and algae, are the most common …

Agricultural production on smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is hampered by
countless challenges, chief among which is soil degradation due to unsustainable farming …

The anticipated increase in the global population to about 9 billion by 2050 presents a huge
challenge in safely disposing waste generated from both domestic and industrial processes …