Within-farm soil fertility gradients affect response of maize to fertiliser application in western Kenya

By B. Vanlauwe, P. Tittonell, J. Mukalama. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 2007

220 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Soil Science

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. K. Giller
2. P. Tittonell
3. B. Vanlauwe
4. M. V. Wijk
5. Johan Six
6. Marc Corbeels
7. A. Bationo
8. P. Chivenge

In Soil Science

1. K. Giller
2. P. Tittonell
3. M. V. Wijk
4. B. Vanlauwe
5. Jasper A. Vrugt
6. Johan Six
7. A. Bationo
8. P. Chivenge

Citations in the corpus

• Analysing trade-offs in resource and labour allocation by smallholder farmers using inverse modelling techniques: A case-study from Kakamega district, western Kenya (2007, background): “This assumption, however, is quite unrealistic for P (Vanlauwe et al., 2006).”
• Communicating complexity: Integrated assessment of trade-offs concerning soil fertility management within African farming systems to support innovation and development (2011, background): “This heterogeneity in soil fertility has strong effects on resource use efficiency i.e. returns to nutrient and water inputs, land and labour (Vanlauwe et al., 2006; Tittonell et al., 2008d).”
• Sustainable intensification and the African smallholder farmer (2014, background): “circle) with various intensification paradigms included based on their approx variation, expressed as a cumulative frequency curve, in response of maize to Kenya ([44], adapted) (b).”
• Agronomic use efficiency of N fertilizer in maize-based systems in sub-Saharan Africa within the context of integrated soil fertility management (2011, background): “(Tittonell et al. 2005; Vanlauwe et al. 2006).”
• Integrated Soil Fertility Management (2010, background): “Evidence from Western Kenya shows that for fertile soils, AE for plant nutrients is less than that for less intensively managed outfields (Vanlauwe et al. 2006).”
• Unravelling the effects of soil and crop management on maize productivity in smallholder agricultural systems of western Kenya—An application of classification and regression tree analysis (2008, background): “crop response) has been shown to vary for different soil quality classes (Vanlauwe et al., 2006).”