Environmental crisis or ‘lie of the land’? The debate on soil degradation in Africa

By N. Koning, E. Smaling. 2005

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The State of Soil Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Baselines, Trajectories, and Solutions (2015, background): “However, estimations of the extent and rate of degradation was limited by an overall lack of biophysical data on Africa, and thus relied heavily on estimations of one indicator (namely, erosion, which was modeled not measured) and interpolation when scaling-up to regions and countries [3].”
Identifying determinants, pressures and trade-offs of crop residue use in mixed smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (2015, background): “The objective of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of the determinants of CR use and to examine some options to cope with pressures and trade-offs in 12 study sites across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.”
Linkages between Land Management, Land Degradation, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Uganda (2008, background): “Some of these criticisms are well founded (Koning and Smaling 2005).”
Assessing soil fertility decline in the tropics using soil chemical data (2006, background): “Some researchers consider nutrient depletion to be a serious problem (Koning and Smaling, 2005; Muchena et al., 2005) hindering agricultural development; others argue that the problem is exaggerated and that farmers have found ways to deal with dwindling soil fertility (Fairhead and Scoones, 2005; M”