Maize productivity and mineral N dynamics following different soil fertility management practices on a depleted sandy soil in Zimbabwe

By R. Chikowo, P. Mapfumo, P. Nyamugafata, K. E. Giller. 2004

101 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science, Soil Science

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. K. Giller
2. F. Akinnifesi
3. T. Jayne
4. Olu Ajayi
5. G. Sileshi
6. B. Vanlauwe
7. F. Place
8. S. Twomlow

In Plant Science

1. Olu Ajayi
2. K. Giller
3. G. Sileshi
4. F. Akinnifesi
5. F. Place
6. B. Vanlauwe

In Soil Science

1. K. Giller
2. T. Jayne
3. Rie Muraoka
4. Songqing Jin
5. F. Akinnifesi
6. B. Vanlauwe
7. Olu Ajayi
8. G. Sileshi

Citations in the corpus

• Meta-analysis of maize yield response to woody and herbaceous legumes in sub-Saharan Africa (2008, background): “The most common explanation was improvement in nutrient availability as a result of (1) N input by biological N2 fixation (BNF) (Adu-Gyamfi et al. 2007; Chikowo et al. 2004; Kaizzi et al. 2004; Ojiem et al. 2007; Wortmann and Kaizzi 2000), (2) retrieval of nutrients from below the rooting zone of ma”
• Organic Matter Management as an Underlying Cause for Soil Fertility Gradients on Smallholder Farms in Zimbabwe (2005, background): “A study was conducted across 120 on-farm field sites in three agro-ecological regions of Zimbabwe to identify management factors influencing the formation of within-field/farm soil fertility gradients.”
• Niche-based assessment of contributions of legumes to the nitrogen economy of Western Kenya smallholder farms (2007, background): “Even though legumes can play a major role in improving farm productivity in smallholder agriculture as short duration fallow species (Hudgens, 2000), current knowledge on N2-fixation performance under the non-ideal conditions encountered in African smallholder farming systems is limited, although so”
• Land Access, Land Rental and Food Security: Evidence from Kenya (2014, background): “of organic fertilizer application as a strategy used by households to improve the long-run fertility and productivity of their soils (Chikowo et al., 2004; Tittonell and Giller, 2013).”
• Raising the productivity of smallholder farms under semi-arid conditions by use of small doses of manure and nitrogen: a case of participatory research (2007, background): “Similar benefits of N top-dressing with manure application have been found for maize production in Zimbabwe on granitic sands (Grant 1976; Thiessen 1979; Chikowo et al. 2004) and elsewhere in Africa (Carsky et al. 1998; Sherchan et al. 1999; Roose and Barthes 2001).”