Analyzing successes in agriculture and land management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is macro-level gloom obscuring positive micro-level change?

By C. Reij, E. Smaling. 2008

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Cereal yield response to conservation agriculture practices in drylands of West Africa: A quantitative synthesis (2012, background): “Farmers have been protecting and managing natural regeneration on their cultivated fields, which have resulted in a substantial re-greening of parts of the Sahel (Reij and Smaling, 2008; Garrity et al., 2010).”
Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems. (2014, background): “The average use of mineral fertilizers does not surpass 6–7 kg of NPK ha– 1, against a middle and low income country average of nearly 100 kg ha– 1, on land of generally low and declining inherent fertility (Reij and Smaling, 2008).”
Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation (2011, background): “Innovations of this kind are not necessarily only local phenomena, but can have large-scale effects through diffusion or scaling up, like the suggested re-greening of the Sahel (Reij and Smaling 2008) or targeted grazer control during El Niño Southern Oscillation events to restore degraded ecosyste”
Sustainable intensification in African agriculture (2011, background): “New Rices for Africa [NERICA]; Jones et al., 1997), soil and water conservation (Reij and Smaling, 2008), soyabean development (Giller, 2008), conservation agriculture (CA) (Kassam et al., 2009), cassava, hybrid maize, cotton, dairy and horticulture (Haggblade and Hazell, 2009), the Millions Fed…”