Contextualising smallholder organic agriculture in Zimbabwe and other sub-Saharan African countries: a review of challenges and opportunities

Clean weeding showed positive effects on earthworm communities following six years of minimum tillage in a maize field in northern Zimbabwe

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Rainwater harvesting and Leucaena leucocephala biomass rates effects on soil moisture, water use efficiency and Sorghum bicolor [(L.) Moench] productivity in a semi‐arid area in Zimbabwe

(2022) Andrew T Kugedera et al.   JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

Recommendations for Effective and Sustainable Regulation of Biopesticides in Nigeria

(2022) Christine Abey Ashaolu et al.   Sustainability

What is ‘conventional’ agriculture?

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

Water Yam (Dioscorea alata L.) Growth and Tuber Yield as Affected by Rotation and Fertilization Regimes across an Environmental Gradient in West Africa

(2022) Nestor Pouya et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Research priorities for sandy soils in Central Africa

(2022) Lydie-Stella Koutika et al.   Geoderma Regional

Farms in transition: agroecological farming giving families an edge in the face of declining agricultural productivity and climate stress in Bikita, Zimbabwe

(2022) Paul Mapfumo et al.   Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Augmenting Leucaena leucocephala biomass with mineral fertiliser on rainwater use efficiency, agronomic efficiency and yields on sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [(L.) Moench]) under rainwater harvesting techniques in semi-arid region of Zimbabwe

(2022) Andrew Tapiwa Kugedera et al.   Heliyon

Plant-based extracts for cotton pest management in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review

(2022) Pierre Silvie   Botany Letters

Soil fertility maintenance with organic amendments to orange fleshed sweetpotato

(2021) Rafaela Feola Conz et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Soil quality and fertility in sustainable agriculture, with a contribution to the biological classification of agricultural soils

(2021) Adriano Sofo et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Appraisal for organic amendments and plant growth‐promoting rhizobacteria to enhance crop productivity under drought stress: A review

(2021) Naseer Ullah et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY AND CROP SCIENCE

Organic soil fertility amendments enhance surface-dwelling beetle diversity in a sub-humid tropical environment under conservation agriculture

(2021) Nilton Mashavakure et al.   ACTA AGRICULTURAE SCANDINAVICA SECTION B-SOIL AND PLANT SCIENCE

Motivations, goals, and benefits associated with organic grain farming by producers in Iowa, U.S.

(2021) Guang Han et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Interactions between soil properties, agricultural management and cultivar type drive structural and functional adaptations of the wheat rhizosphere microbiome to drought

(2021) Claudia Breitkreuz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Estimates of carbon stocks in sandy soils cultivated under local management practices in Senegal’s groundnut basin

(2021) Oscar Pascal Malou et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Assessing farmers’ attitudes to, and the behavioural costs of, organic fertiliser practices in northern Ghana: An application of the behavioural cost approach

(2021) Bunbom Edward Daadi et al.   Heliyon

Root and soil health management approaches for control of plant-parasitic nematodes in sub-Saharan Africa

(2021) Hannah Karuri   CROP PROTECTION

Toward greater sustainability: how investing in soil health may enhance maize productivity in Southern Africa

(2021) Christian Thierfelder et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Short-term yield gains or long-term sustainability? – a synthesis of Conservation Agriculture long-term experiments in Southern Africa

(2021) Christian Thierfelder et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Co-Pyrolysis of Maize Stover and Igneous Phosphate Rock to Produce Potential Biochar-Based Phosphate Fertilizer with Improved Carbon Retention and Liming Value

(2020) Akinson Tumbure et al.   ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Prospects of Using Termite Mound Soil Organic Amendment for Enhancing Soil Nutrition in Southern Africa

(2020) Kafula Chisanga et al.   Plants-Basel

Agro-ecological options for fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda JE Smith) management: Providing low-cost, smallholder friendly solutions to an invasive pest

(2019) Rhett D. Harrison et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Organic farming for local markets in Kenya: Contribution of conversion and certification to environmental benefits

(2019) Chloé Tankam et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS-REVUE CANADIENNE D AGROECONOMIE

The impact of microbes in the orchestration of plants’ resistance to biotic stress: a disease management approach

(2018) Matthew Chekwube Enebe et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Zinc fertilization increases productivity and grain nutritional quality of cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.) under integrated soil fertility management

(2017) Muneta G. Manzeke et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Why organic resources and current fertilizer formulations in Southern Africa cannot sustain maize productivity: Evidence from a long-term experiment in Zimbabwe

(2017) Tongai J. Mtangadura et al.   PLoS One

Postharvest quality and composition of organically and conventionally produced fruits: A review

(2017) Asanda Mditshwa et al.   SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE

Diversity in crop residue management across an intensification gradient in southern Africa: System dynamics and crop productivity

(2016) Leonard Rusinamhodzi et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Economic trade-offs of biomass use in crop-livestock systems: Exploring more sustainable options in semi-arid Zimbabwe

(2015) Sabine Homann-Kee Tui et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Feeding, crop residue and manure management for integrated soil fertility management – A case study from Kenya

(2015) A. Castellanos-Navarrete et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Maize crop residue uses and trade-offs on smallholder crop-livestock farms in Zimbabwe: Economic implications of intensification

(2015) Leonard Rusinamhodzi et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Nutrient Management Strategies on Heterogeneously Fertile Granitic-Derived Soils in Subhumid Zimbabwe

(2015) Natasha Kurwakumire et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Nitrous oxide and methane emissions from cultivated seasonal wetland (dambo) soils with inorganic, organic and integrated nutrient management

(2014) G. Nyamadzawo et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Analysis of Differences in Productivity, Profitability and Soil Fertility Between Organic and Conventional Cropping Systems in the Tropics and Sub-tropics

(2014) C M Te Pas et al.   Journal of Integrative Agriculture

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

Effect of organic fertilizer on the growth and fruit yield of six paprika (Capsicum annum L.) cultivars in Malawi

(2011) Gudeta W. Sileshi et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

Agricultural success from Africa: the case of fertilizer tree systems in southern Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe)

(2011) Oluyede Clifford Ajayi et al.   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability