Agricultural production and soil nutrient mining in Africa: implications for resource conservation and policy development.

By J. Henao, C. Baanante. 2006

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Citations in the corpus

• Linkages between Land Management, Land Degradation, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Uganda (2008, background): “…the most rapid degradation are very densely populated areas with young and relatively fertile volcanic soils on steep mountain slopes, as in much of the highlands of eastern and central Africa (Smaling, Nandwa, and Janssen 1997; Voortman, Sonneveld, and Keyzer 2000; Henao and Baanante 2006).”
• Effect of farmyard manure and inorganic fertilizers on maize production on Alfisols and Ultisols in Kakamega, western Kenya. (2010, background): “Such serious threats to agricultural productivity have been identified as major causes of decreased crop yields in all regions within sub Saharan Africa (Henao and Baanante, 2006).”
• Soil fertility restoration techniques in sub-Saharan Africa using organic resources (2009, background): “Soil nutrient depletion and likely degradation have been considered serious threats to agricultural productivity and have been identified as major causes of decreased crop yields and per capita food production in SSA (Henao and Baanante, 2006).”
• Turning waste into value: using human urine to enrich soils for sustainable food production in Uganda (2015, background): “Nevertheless, in much of sub-Saharan Africa, including Uganda, its use in agricultural production is not a common practice (Winblad and Simpson-Hérbert, 2004).”
• Soils and food sufficiency. A review (2011, background): “Similar to the prehistoric civilizations, the problem of nutrient depletion has aggravated the food insecurity in SSA even during the 21st century (Smaling et al., 1993; Henao and Baanante, 2006; IFDC, 2006).”
• Reducing Energy Inputs in the US Food System (2008, background): “For example, vetch, a legume cover crop grown during the fall and spring months (non-growing season), can add about 70 kg/ha of nitrogen (Pimentel et al. 2005; Henao and Baanante 2006).”
• Understanding the agricultural input landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : recent plot, household, and community-level evidence (2014, background): “In an environment where initial soil productivity may be low and/or where crops are cultivated without the ability to leave plots fallow, replenishing the soil is essential for the long term viability of agriculture (Henao and Baanante 2006).”
• Agriculture and food security in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: diversity in trends and opportunities (2011, background): “Table 10 shows the use of inorganic fertilizers per hectare of cultivated land in the respective countries for three periods and it shows the nutrient balance situation around 1983 as estimated by Stoorvogel and Smaling (1990) and around 2003, according to Henao and Baanante (2006).”