Towards a Cropping System Sustainability Tool (CROSST) –Evaluating Performance of Green Manure Cover Crops in Benin and Kenya: A Pilot Study
Soil degradation poses a serious threat to food production and rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa1. Nutrient mining ,as a result of unsustainable farming practices, have left the soils unfertile (Fig.1). Green Manure Cover Crops (GMCC’s) are a promising intervention to improve soil health2.Bene...
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| author | Mukiri, Jessica Diogo, Rodrigue V. Cao Gbedjissokpa, Sènami G.M. Kinyua, Michael Hoek, Rein van der Sommer, Rolf Paul, Birthe K. |
| author_browse | Diogo, Rodrigue V. Cao Gbedjissokpa, Sènami G.M. Hoek, Rein van der Kinyua, Michael Mukiri, Jessica Paul, Birthe K. Sommer, Rolf |
| author_facet | Mukiri, Jessica Diogo, Rodrigue V. Cao Gbedjissokpa, Sènami G.M. Kinyua, Michael Hoek, Rein van der Sommer, Rolf Paul, Birthe K. |
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| description | Soil degradation poses a serious threat to food production and rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa1. Nutrient mining ,as a result of unsustainable farming practices, have left the soils unfertile (Fig.1). Green Manure Cover Crops (GMCC’s) are a promising intervention to improve soil health2.Benefits from GMCC’s are well known; however, there has been low uptake. Information on how GMCC technologies impact on profits, soil health ,and ecosystem services had not been thoroughly assessed3. Therefore, a Cropping System Sustainability Tool (CROSST) was developed to better understand agro-environmental and socio-economic impacts and trade-offs of GMCC integration in cropping systems.
The tool was pilot tested in Benin and Kenya under the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)/Deutsche GesellschaftfürInternationaleZusammenarbeit(GIZ) program on ‘Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security.’ |
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| spelling | CGSpace1036862025-11-05T18:17:47Z Towards a Cropping System Sustainability Tool (CROSST) –Evaluating Performance of Green Manure Cover Crops in Benin and Kenya: A Pilot Study Mukiri, Jessica Diogo, Rodrigue V. Cao Gbedjissokpa, Sènami G.M. Kinyua, Michael Hoek, Rein van der Sommer, Rolf Paul, Birthe K. cropping systems tools soil fertility Soil degradation poses a serious threat to food production and rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa1. Nutrient mining ,as a result of unsustainable farming practices, have left the soils unfertile (Fig.1). Green Manure Cover Crops (GMCC’s) are a promising intervention to improve soil health2.Benefits from GMCC’s are well known; however, there has been low uptake. Information on how GMCC technologies impact on profits, soil health ,and ecosystem services had not been thoroughly assessed3. Therefore, a Cropping System Sustainability Tool (CROSST) was developed to better understand agro-environmental and socio-economic impacts and trade-offs of GMCC integration in cropping systems. The tool was pilot tested in Benin and Kenya under the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)/Deutsche GesellschaftfürInternationaleZusammenarbeit(GIZ) program on ‘Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security.’ 2019 2019-09-19T14:51:34Z 2019-09-19T14:51:34Z Poster https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103686 en Open Access application/pdf International Center for Tropical Agriculture Mukiri J; Diogo RVC; Gbedjissokpa SGM; Kinyua M; van der Hoek R; Sommer R; Paul B. (2019). Towards a Cropping System Sustainability Tool (CROSST) –Evaluating Performance of Green Manure Cover Crops in Benin and Kenya: A Pilot Study. Poster presentation at TropenTag 2019, September 18–20 2019, Kassel, Germany. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). 1p. |
| spellingShingle | cropping systems tools soil fertility Mukiri, Jessica Diogo, Rodrigue V. Cao Gbedjissokpa, Sènami G.M. Kinyua, Michael Hoek, Rein van der Sommer, Rolf Paul, Birthe K. Towards a Cropping System Sustainability Tool (CROSST) –Evaluating Performance of Green Manure Cover Crops in Benin and Kenya: A Pilot Study |
| title | Towards a Cropping System Sustainability Tool (CROSST) –Evaluating Performance of Green Manure Cover Crops in Benin and Kenya: A Pilot Study |
| title_full | Towards a Cropping System Sustainability Tool (CROSST) –Evaluating Performance of Green Manure Cover Crops in Benin and Kenya: A Pilot Study |
| title_fullStr | Towards a Cropping System Sustainability Tool (CROSST) –Evaluating Performance of Green Manure Cover Crops in Benin and Kenya: A Pilot Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a Cropping System Sustainability Tool (CROSST) –Evaluating Performance of Green Manure Cover Crops in Benin and Kenya: A Pilot Study |
| title_short | Towards a Cropping System Sustainability Tool (CROSST) –Evaluating Performance of Green Manure Cover Crops in Benin and Kenya: A Pilot Study |
| title_sort | towards a cropping system sustainability tool crosst evaluating performance of green manure cover crops in benin and kenya a pilot study |
| topic | cropping systems tools soil fertility |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103686 |
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