The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa

Modeling global oceanic nitrogen deposition from food systems and its mitigation potential by reducing overuse of fertilizers

(2023) Lei Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A better use of fertilizers is needed for global food security and environmental sustainability

(2023) Josep Penuelas et al.   Agriculture and Food Security

Greenhouse gas emissions from nitrogen fertilizers could be reduced by up to one-fifth of current levels by 2050 with combined interventions

(2023) Yunhu Gao et al.   Nature Food

The global nitrogen-phosphorus imbalance

(2022) Josep Peñuelas et al.   SCIENCE

What is ‘conventional’ agriculture?

(2022) James Sumberg et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Levers for the agroecological transition of tropical agriculture

(2022) François Xavier Côte et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Modeling sorghum-cowpea intercropping for a site in the savannah zone of Mali: Strengths and weaknesses of the Stics model

(2022) Amadou Traoré et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Increased mineral fertilizer use on maize can improve both household food security and regional food production in East Africa

(2022) Gatien N. Falconnier et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Long-term tillage, residue management and crop rotation impacts on N2O and CH4 emissions from two contrasting soils in sub-humid Zimbabwe

(2022) Armwell Shumba et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Can green manure contribute to sustainable intensification of rainfed rice production in Madagascar?

(2022) Lalaina Ranaivoson et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Regenerative Agriculture: An agronomic perspective

(2021) Ken E Giller et al.   OUTLOOK ON AGRICULTURE

Inorganic carbon losses by soil acidification jeopardize global efforts on carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation

(2021) Sajjad Raza et al.   Journal of Cleaner Production

Co-benefits of nutrient management tailored to smallholder agriculture

(2021) Pauline Chivenge et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Increasing plant diversity promotes ecosystem functions in rainfed rice based short rotations in Malagasy highlands

(2021) A. Ripoche et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Plant biodiversity and the regeneration of soil fertility

(2021) George N. Furey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Small farms and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Farming for food, for income or for lack of better options?

(2021) Ken E. Giller et al.   Food Security

Productivity and biological N2-fixation in cereal-cowpea intercropping systems in sub-Saharan Africa. A review

(2020) Talent Namatsheve et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Birds and bats contribute to natural regulation of the millet head miner in tree-crop agroforestry systems

(2020) Ahmadou Sow et al.   CROP PROTECTION

Using remote sensing to assess the effect of trees on millet yield in complex parklands of Central Senegal

(2020) L. Leroux et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Can N 2 O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?

(2020) Bertrand Guenet et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

(2020) Hanqin Tian et al.   NATURE

Intercropping legumes and cereals increases phosphorus use efficiency; a meta-analysis

(2020) Xiaoyan Tang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Closing maize yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa will boost soil N2O emissions

(2020) Sonja Leitner et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Biomass flows in an agro-pastoral village in West-Africa: Who benefits from crop residue mulching?

(2020) D. Berre et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Sustainable agricultural intensification in an era of rural transformation in Africa

(2019) T.S. Jayne et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Learning from the soil’s memory: Tailoring of fertilizer application based on past manure applications increases fertilizer use efficiency and crop productivity on Kenyan smallholder farms

(2019) Samuel Njoroge et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Impacts of intensifying or expanding cereal cropping in sub‐Saharan Africa on greenhouse gas emissions and food security

(2019) Marloes P. Loon et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Intercropping maize and soybean increases efficiency of land and fertilizer nitrogen use; A meta-analysis

(2019) Zhan Xu et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Maize crop nutrient input requirements for food security in sub-Saharan Africa

(2019) H.F.M. ten Berge et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Climate-smart agroforestry: Faidherbia albida trees buffer wheat against climatic extremes in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

(2018) Tesfaye Shiferaw Sida et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Sustainable intensification through rotations with grain legumes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review

(2018) A.C. Franke et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Multi-level analysis of nutrient cycling within agro-sylvo-pastoral landscapes in West Africa using an agent-based model

(2018) Myriam Grillot et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Review: Taking stock of Africa’s second-generation agricultural input subsidy programs

(2018) Thomas S. Jayne et al.   FOOD POLICY

The 4 per 1000 goal and soil carbon storage under agroforestry and conservation agriculture systems in sub-Saharan Africa

(2018) Marc Corbeels et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate

(2018) Curtis A. Deutsch et al.   SCIENCE

Phosphorus in agricultural soils: drivers of its distribution at the global scale

(2017) Bruno Ringeval et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification

(2017) Laura Kehoe et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Can sub-Saharan Africa feed itself?

(2016) Martin K. van Ittersum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gender and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: introduction to the special issue

(2015) Talip Kilic et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

From farm scale synergies to village scale trade-offs: Cereal crop residues use in an agro-pastoral system of the Sudanian zone of Burkina Faso

(2015) N. Andrieu et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Understanding farm trajectories and development pathways: Two decades of change in southern Mali

(2015) Gatien N. Falconnier et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Millet response to microdose fertilization in south–western Niger: Effect of antecedent fertility management and environmental factors

(2015) Charles L. Bielders et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Point of no return? Rehabilitating degraded soils for increased crop productivity on smallholder farms in eastern Zimbabwe

(2015) Hatirarami Nezomba et al.   GEODERMA

Managing nitrogen for sustainable development

(2015) Xin Zhang et al.   NATURE

High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa’s wet savannahs to cropland

(2015) Timothy D. Searchinger et al.   Nature Climate Change

50 year trends in nitrogen use efficiency of world cropping systems: the relationship between yield and nitrogen input to cropland

(2014) Luis Lassaletta et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Benefits of legume–maize rotations: Assessing the impact of diversity on the productivity of smallholders in Western Kenya

(2014) J.O. Ojiem et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Algal blooms: Noteworthy nitrogen

(2014) H. W. Paerl et al.   SCIENCE

A biogeochemical view of the global agro-food system: Nitrogen flows associated with protein production, consumption and trade

(2014) Gilles Billen et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Does intensification slow crop land expansion or encourage deforestation?

(2014) Derek Byerlee et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Integrated crop–livestock systems: Strategies to achieve synergy between agricultural production and environmental quality

(2013) Gilles Lemaire et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Pushing the envelope? Maize production intensification and the role of cattle manure in recovery of degraded soils in smallholder farming areas of Zimbabwe

(2013) Leonard Rusinamhodzi et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

A fourth principle is required to define Conservation Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: The appropriate use of fertilizer to enhance crop productivity

(2013) B. Vanlauwe et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

How do phosphorus, potassium and sulphur affect plant growth and biological nitrogen fixation in crop and pasture legumes? A meta-analysis

(2013) Guillermo A. Divito et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Conservation Agriculture in mixed crop–livestock systems: Scoping crop residue trade-offs in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

(2012) Diego Valbuena et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

The yield gap of major food crops in family agriculture in the tropics: Assessment and analysis through field surveys and modelling

(2012) François Affholder et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security

(2012) Riccardo Bommarco et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Integration of legume trees in maize-based cropping systems improves rain use efficiency and yield stability under rain-fed agriculture

(2011) Gudeta W. Sileshi et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Spillover of functionally important organisms between managed and natural habitats

(2011) Eleanor J. Blitzer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Research, development and scaling-up the adoption of fodder shrub innovations in East Africa

(2011) Charles Wambugu et al.   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

(2011) Eric F. Lambin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Competing use of organic resources, village-level interactions between farm types and climate variability in a communal area of NE Zimbabwe

(2010) M.C. Rufino et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

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

The Global Stock of Domesticated Honey Bees Is Growing Slower Than Agricultural Demand for Pollination

(2009) Marcelo A. Aizen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Trends in productivity of crops, fallow and rangelands in Southwest Niger: Impact of land use, management and variable rainfall

(2009) Pierre Hiernaux et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

The contribution of manure and fertilizer nitrogen to atmospheric nitrous oxide since 1860

(2009) Eric A. Davidson   Nature Geoscience

Eutrophication and nutrient release in urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa — A review

(2009) P.M. Nyenje et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

An Earth-system perspective of the global nitrogen cycle

(2008) Nicolas Gruber et al.   NATURE

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

(2008) Gudeta Sileshi et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Global inputs of biological nitrogen fixation in agricultural systems

(2008) David F. Herridge et al.   PLANT AND SOIL