Communicating complexity: Integrated assessment of trade-offs concerning soil fertility management within African farming systems to support innovation and development

By K. Giller, P. Tittonell, Mariana C. Rufino, M. V. Wijk, S. Zingore, P. Mapfumo, S. Adjei-Nsiah, Mario Herrero, R. Chikowo, Marc Corbeels and 16 more. 2011

519 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Soil Science

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How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. P. Tittonell
2. Martin K. van Ittersum
3. D. Pannell
4. R. Llewellyn
5. Marc Corbeels
6. J. Antle
7. Michael R. Carter
8. Leslie Lipper

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Michael R. Carter
2. Mark Lubell
3. Virginia H. Dale
4. P. Tittonell
5. P. Balvanera
6. Martin K. van Ittersum

In Soil Science

1. J. Antle
2. Jerry L. Hatfield
3. Michael R. Carter
4. L. Jackson
5. D. Pannell
6. William R. Horwath
7. Sonja J. Vermeulen
8. P. K. Thornton

Citations in the corpus

• Evaluating agricultural trade-offs in the age of sustainable development (2016, background): “occur at the farm level and simulates short and long-term trade-offs around soil fertility (Giller et al., 2011).”
• Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action (2014, background): “ample, larger farm size and more education), no universal variables seem to explain adoption [145], leading some to suggest that conservation farming may be successful only under certain agroecological conditions [144,146].”
• Linking agricultural adaptation strategies, food security and vulnerability: evidence from West Africa (2016, unknown): “This approach is similar to typologies developed in other studies, also based on land area and off-farm income (Waithaka et al. 2006; Tittonell et al. 2010), and contrasts with typologies based only on resource endowment (Ka-manga et al. 2010; Giller et al. 2011).”
• The farm-level economics of conservation agriculture for resource-poor farmers (2014, background): “An additional challenge, potentially even more difficult, is the need for socio-economic considerations that favour successful adaptation and adoption (Giller et al., 2011a; Pannell et al., 2006).”
• The crop yield gap between organic and conventional agriculture (2012, background): “Yield reductions due to pests and diseases are greater and more difficult to prevent in the humid tropics, and nutrients are limiting in for instance Africa (e.g. Giller et al., 2011; Tittonell et al., 2008).”