The self-reinforcing feedback between low soil fertility and chronic poverty

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Soil Degradation, Land Scarcity and Food Security: Reviewing a Complex Challenge (2016, background): “Chronic poverty and soil degradation can generate self-reinforcing feedbacks that cause poverty to persist and worsen, along with soil degradation, as farmers may lack the capital to adopt soil conservation practices (see [81], for a review of some of these complex feedbacks).”
On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa (2017, background): “…affecting about 65 percent of the population (UNECA 2007), a growing body of empirical evidence links low soil fertility to persistent rural poverty (Barrett and Bevis 2015), and poor soils are also less responsive to inorganic fertilizer (Marenya and Barrett 2009, Tittonell and Giller 2013).”
Middle-range theories of land system change (2018, background): “, 2012), or poverty traps linked to land degradation and loss of resilience (Barrett and Bevis, 2015; Lade et al., 2017; Haider et al., 2018).”