Organic Matter Management as an Underlying Cause for Soil Fertility Gradients on Smallholder Farms in Zimbabwe

By F. Mtambanengwe, P. Mapfumo. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 2005

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Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Productivity and residual benefits of grain legumes to sorghum under semi-arid conditions in southwestern Zimbabwe (2007, result): “Pigeon pea is a relatively new crop in Zimbabwe.”
Challenges and opportunities in linking carbon sequestration, livelihoods and ecosystem service provision in drylands (2012, background): “In much of Africa, the poor own very small plots while communal tenure arrangements may limit access, use and benefit-sharing (Mwangi and Dohrn, 2008; Larson, 2011).”
Participatory action research (PAR) as an entry point for supporting climate change adaptation by smallholder farmers in Africa (2013, background): “This is largely due to the inherently poor fertility of the soils as often characterised by low organic carbon, which rarely exceeds 100 g kg 1 (Mtambanengwe and Mapfumo, 2005).”
Effect of hand-hoe based conservation agriculture on soil fertility and maize yield in selected smallholder areas in Zimbabwe (2013, background): “Besides the general infertility, the soils exhibit spatial fertility variability large enough to affect response to fertilization and targeted application of the often limited nutrient resources to preferred portions of the farm has further increased the fertility gradients (Mtambanengwe and Mapfumo”
Precision of farmer-based fertility ratings and soil organic carbon for crop production on a Ferralsol (2015, background): “The contrary is true for soils with low concentrations (Ebanyat, 2009; Mtambanengwe and Mapfumo, 2005; Musinguzi et al., 2013; Zingore et al., 2007).”