Search Results - subject:"SOIL FERTILITY"

Integrated nutrient management, soil fertility, and sustainable agriculture

Gruhn, Peter; Goletti, Francesco; Yudelman, Montague - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000

sustainable way. Declining soil fertility and mismanagement of plant nutrients have made this task more difficult. In this brief …; and recommendations for improving the management of plant nutrients and soil fertility are presented. …

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Integrated nutrient management, soil fertility, and sustainable agriculture: current issues and future challenges

Gruhn, Peter; Goletti, Francesco; Yudelman, Montague - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000

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Maize Trade Liberalization vs. Fertilizer Subsidies in Tanzania: A CGE Model Analysis with Endogenous Soil Fertility

Grepperud, Sverre; Wiig, Henrik; Aune, Finn Roar - 1999

This paper presents an analysis on economy-environmental interlinkages for Tanzania by using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model based on a social accounting matrix. The purpose of the analysis is to include general equilibrium effects when evaluating two suggested policy measures meant...

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Maize Trade Liberalization vs. Fertilizer Subsidies in Tanzania: A CGE Model Analysis with Endogenous Soil Fertility

Grepperud, Sverre; Wiig, Henrik; Aune, Finn Roar - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1999

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Farmers' Taxonomies as a Participatory Diagnostic Tool: Soil Fertility Management in Chihota, Zimbabwe

Bellon, Mauricio R.; Gambara, Peter; Gatsi, Tendai; … - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo … - 1999

recognize the problems of low soil fertility and have devised ways of coping with them. This study describes the use of farmers … managing poor soil fertility in Chihota, a sub-humid communal area of north central Zimbabwe. It is part of an effort by a … group of agricultural researchers and extensionists working on improved soil fertility technologies, to better integrate …

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Action research on alternative land tenure arrangements in Wenchi, Ghana: learning from ambiguous social dynamics and self-organized institutional innovation

Adjei-Nsiah, Samuel; Leeuwis, Cees; Giller, Ken; … - In: Agriculture and Human Values 25 (2008) 3, pp. 389-403

soil fertility improvement. Three stages of action research are described and analyzed. We initially began by bringing …

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Lessons for farmer-oriented research: Experiences from a West African soil fertility management project

Nederlof, E.; Dangbégnon, Constant - In: Agriculture and Human Values 24 (2007) 3, pp. 369-387

) adopt recommended practices that were promoted through a multi-organizational project on soil fertility management. We … focused on soil fertility management, but failed to take into account the wider economic context within which soil fertility …

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Poverty, Land Degradation and Climatic Uncertainty

Grepperud, Sverre - 1996

This paper studies the implications of climatic uncertainty and poverty for resource degradation. In doing so, two partial models are considered. The first model focuses on productive inputs only, while the second model describes the role of soil conservation inputs. Both models are first...

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Poverty, Land Degradation and Climatic Uncertainty

Grepperud, Sverre - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1996

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Alley farming for improving small ruminant productivity in West Africa: ILRI's experiences

Jabbar, Mohammad A.; Larbi, A; Reynolds, L - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 1996

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