Scaling of climate-smart nutrient management advice to smallholder farmers in Tanzania through the Maize-Nutrient-Manager (MNM) decision support tool (2021 UPDATE)

To increase productivity while limiting GHG emissions, African smallholders need field-specific fertilizer management advice. A new mobile phone application - Maize-Nutrient-Manager - now enables extension workers to not merely provide standard advice messages, but to provide field-specific advice t...

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Autor principal: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Formato: Case Study
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121402
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Sumario:To increase productivity while limiting GHG emissions, African smallholders need field-specific fertilizer management advice. A new mobile phone application - Maize-Nutrient-Manager - now enables extension workers to not merely provide standard advice messages, but to provide field-specific advice to maize farmers that is tailored to their divergent investment capacities, field conditions and agronomic management.