The State of Soil Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Baselines, Trajectories, and Solutions

Land health surveillance and response: A framework for evidence-informed land management

(2015) Keith D. Shepherd et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Agricultural intensification and the functional capacity of soil microbes on smallholder African farms

(2015) Stephen A. Wood et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

En route to plentiful food production in Africa

(2015) Pedro A. Sanchez   Nature Plants

Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition

(2014) Mark A. Bradford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conservation agriculture and ecosystem services: An overview

(2013) Cheryl Palm et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Effect of land-use conversion from forest to cocoa agroforest on soil characteristics and quality of a Ferric Lixisol in lowland humid Ghana

(2013) Evans K. Dawoe et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

Harmonisation of the soil map of Africa at the continental scale

(2013) Olivier Dewitte et al.   GEODERMA

Soil carbon and nitrogen stocks under chronosequence of farm and traditional agroforestry land uses in Gambo District, Southern Ethiopia

(2013) Ambachew Demessie et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

The potassium paradox: Implications for soil fertility, crop production and human health

(2013) S.A. Khan et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Soil Heterogeneity and Soil Fertility Gradients in Smallholder Farms of the East African Highlands

(2013) P. Tittonell et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Can a Labile Carbon Test be Used to Predict Crop Responses to Improve Soil Organic Matter Management?

(2012) S. T. Lucas et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Plant–microbial linkages and ecosystem nitrogen retention: lessons for sustainable agriculture

(2012) Franciska T de Vries et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Benefits and challenges of crop rotations in maize-based conservation agriculture (CA) cropping systems of southern Africa

(2012) Christian Thierfelder et al.   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa

(2012) Germain Bayon et al.   SCIENCE

Long-term soil quality degradation along a cultivation chronosequence in western Kenya

(2011) B.N. Moebius-Clune et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

A participatory soil quality assessment in Northern Ethiopia's Mai-Negus catchment

(2011) Gebreyesus Brhane Tesfahunegn et al.   CATENA

Impact of grazing on soil microbial communities along a chronosequence of Acacia tortilis subsp. raddiana in arid soils in Tunisia

(2011) Amira Fterich et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

COMPARING FARMERS' PERCEPTION OF SOIL FERTILITY CHANGE WITH SOIL PROPERTIES AND CROP PERFORMANCE IN BESEKU, ETHIOPIA

(2011) E. Karltun et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

No-Till Impact on Soil and Soil Organic Carbon Erosion under Crop Residue Scarcity in Africa

(2011) Charmaine N. Mchunu et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Yield and soil system changes from conservation tillage in dryland farming: A case study from North Eastern Tanzania

(2010) Elin Enfors et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Economic valuation of land restoration: The case of exclosures established on communal grazing lands in Tigray, Ethiopia

(2010) W. Mekuria et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Managing soil fertility diversity to enhance resource use efficiencies in smallholder farming systems: a case from Murewa District, Zimbabwe

(2010) S. Zingore et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Integrated Soil Fertility Management

(2010) B. Vanlauwe et al.   OUTLOOK ON AGRICULTURE

Agronomic use efficiency of N fertilizer in maize-based systems in sub-Saharan Africa within the context of integrated soil fertility management

(2010) Bernard Vanlauwe et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Does the combined application of organic and mineral nutrient sources influence maize productivity? A meta-analysis

(2010) Pauline Chivenge et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Identifying potential synergies and trade-offs for meeting food security and climate change objectives in sub-Saharan Africa

(2010) C. A. Palm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nutrient balances in African land use systems across different spatial scales: A review of approaches, challenges and progress

(2009) Juan Guillermo Cobo et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Biotic and abiotic controls on diurnal fluctuations in labile soil phosphorus of a wet tropical forest

(2009) Karen L. Vandecar et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of crop rotation and fallow residue management on maize growth, yield and soil carbon in a savannah-forest transition zone of Ghana

(2009) S. G. K. ADIKU et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

Physical impact of grazing by sheep on soil parameters in the Nama Karoo subshrub/grass rangeland of South Africa

(2009) G. van N. du Toit et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development

(2009) P. M. Vitousek et al.   SCIENCE

The African Green Revolution moves forward

(2009) Pedro A. Sanchez et al.   Food Security

Dynamics of topsoil carbon and nitrogen along a tropical forest–cropland chronosequence: Evidence from stable isotope analysis and spectroscopy

(2008) Alex O. Awiti et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Chronosequence analysis of two enclosure management strategies in degraded rangeland of semi-arid Kenya

(2008) Ann Verdoodt et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Reversibility of Soil Productivity Decline with Organic Matter of Differing Quality Along a Degradation Gradient

(2008) Joseph M. Kimetu et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Nutrient constraints to tropical agroecosystem productivity in long-term degrading soils

(2008) SOLOMON NGOZE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Meta-analysis of maize yield response to woody and herbaceous legumes in sub-Saharan Africa

(2008) Gudeta Sileshi et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Nutrient availability and cocoyam yield under different tillage practices

(2008) T AGBEDE   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Soil condition classification using infrared spectroscopy: A proposition for assessment of soil condition along a tropical forest-cropland chronosequence

(2007) Alex O. Awiti et al.   GEODERMA