Indigenous African soil enrichment as a climate‐smart sustainable agriculture alternative
We describe for the first time a current indigenous soil management system in West Africa, in which targeted waste deposition transforms highly weathered, nutrient‐ and carbon‐poor tropical soils into enduringly fertile, carbon‐rich black soils, hereafter “African Dark Earths” (AfDE). In comparisons...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Wiley
2016
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/92029 |
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