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Soil Fertility Improvement and Integrated Nutrient Management : A Global Perspective
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ISBN: 9535149431 9533079452 Year: 2012 Publisher: IntechOpen

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Soil Fertility Improvement and Integrated Nutrient Management: A Global Perspective presents 15 invited chapters written by leading soil fertility experts. The book is organized around three themes. The first theme is Soil Mapping and Soil Fertility Testing, describing spatial heterogeneity in soil nutrients within natural and managed ecosystems, as well as up-to-date soil testing methods and information on how soil fertility indicators respond to agricultural practices. The second theme, Organic and Inorganic Amendments for Soil Fertility Improvement, describes fertilizing materials that provide important amounts of essential nutrients for plants.The third theme, Integrated Nutrient Management Planning: Case Studies From Central Europe, South America, and Africa, highlights the principles of integrated nutrient management. Additionally, it gives case studies explaining how this approach has been implemented successfully across large geographic regions, and at local scales, to improve the productivity of staple crops and forages.


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Soil Fertility
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ISBN: 9535108735 9535150219 Year: 2012 Publisher: IntechOpen

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Soil Fertility book presents nine chapters written by renowned soil fertility experts from Africa, Asia and South America. The book is divided into two sections. Section 1, Biological Processes and Integration of Inorganic and Organic Fertilizers for Soil Fertility Improvement, examines biological processes that can enhance the soil fertility. It discusses the use of both organic and inorganic fertilizers and their integration in improving soil fertility. The second section, Improving Fertilizer Recommendation and Efficiency, looks at the state-of-the-art in leaf sampling and analysis. Proper leaf sampling and standardized methods of analysis are important steps in providing good recommendations.


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Water and fertigation management in micro irrigation
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ISBN: 0429157134 149872003X 9781498720038 9781771881067 1771881062 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oakville, ON

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This important volume, the ninth in the Research Advances in Sustainable Micro Irrigation book series, provides an invaluable addition to the literature and knowledge on the ever-growing need for sustainable irrigation for agricultural crops in many water-scarce parts of the world. The book specifically covers advances in fertigation for water management in general as well as for specific crops, such as peaches, maize, and citrus crops. Specific topics include: The design of various surface and subsurface water emitters Using information from weather stations for irrigation purposes Ultra low

Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Management in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
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ISBN: 9781402057595 9781402057601 1402057598 Year: 2007 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer

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Food insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural production, results in low incomes, poor nutrition, vulnerability to risks and lack of empowerment. Land degradation and soil fertility depletion are considered the major threats to food security and natural resource conservation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Investments in technology, policy and institutional reforms are needed to increase agricultural productivity to ensure food security and sustained national economies. Past research has generated numerous soil fertility management technologies which if adopted could propel the African continent out of the poverty trap. However, these technologies have had little, if any, impact due to low adoption by the smallholder farmers.

Soil testing : Sampling, correlation, calibration, and interpretation : Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by Divisions S-4, S-8, A-1, A-4 and the Soil Testing and Plant Analysis Committee (S-877) of the American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America : The papers were presented during the annual meetings in Chicago, IL, 1-5 Dec. 1985.
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ISBN: 0891187847 9780891187844 Year: 1987 Volume: 21 Publisher: Madison : Soil Science Society of America,

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Soil carbon storage : modulators, mechanisms and modeling
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ISBN: 0128127678 012812766X 9780128127674 9780128127667 Year: 2018 Publisher: London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier,

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Soil Carbon Storage: Modulators, Mechanisms and Modeling takes a novel approach to the issue of soil carbon storage by considering soil C sequestration as a function of the interaction between biotic (e.g. microbes and plants) and abiotic (climate, soil types, management practices) modulators as a key driver of soil C. These modulators are central to C balance through their processing of C from both plant inputs and native soil organic matter. This book considers this concept in the light of state-of-the-art methodologies that elucidate these interactions and increase our understanding of a vitally important, but poorly characterized component of the global C cycle. The book provides soil scientists with a comprehensive, mechanistic, quantitative and predictive understanding of soil carbon storage. It presents a new framework that can be included in predictive models and management practices for better prediction and enhanced C storage in soils.


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Soil fertility
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ISBN: 9781620810941 1620810948 9781620810873 1620810875 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York

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Rural people's response to soil fertility decline : The Adja case (Benin).
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ISBN: 9067543225 Year: 1993 Publisher: Wageningen : Agricultural University,

Soils, land, and food
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ISBN: 1107136261 1280955902 9786610955909 0511815573 0511351410 0511202814 051107848X 0511562047 0511076916 9780511078484 9780511076916 9780511815577 9781280955907 0521820650 9780521820653 0521527597 9780521527590 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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A major challenge of the twenty-first century will be to ensure sufficient global food production to cope with the burgeoning world population. Soils, Land and Food is a short text aimed at undergraduates, graduates, agricultural scientists and policy makers which describes how the use of technology in soil management can increase and sustain agricultural production. The book leads the reader through the development of techniques of land management and discusses reasons why some agricultural projects have succeeded while others have failed. It shows how surveying and protecting soils before new land is brought into cultivation, raising soil fertility, increasing inputs and improving economic conditions can all help to increase food production. Particular emphasis is placed on the need for both economic change and technological intervention in developing countries where, in many cases, food production will need to more than double in the next fifty years.

Understanding environmental policy processes : cases from Africa.
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ISBN: 1849773629 1280475951 9786610475957 1136549722 6000003080 1417542721 9781849773621 9781280475955 9781417542727 9781136549670 1136549676 9781136549717 1136549714 1853839752 9781853839757 1853839809 9781853839801 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Earthscan

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