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Adding a soil fertility dimension to the global farming systems approach, with cases from Africa

2006-08-01

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The global farming systems (GFS) approach is extended by adding a soil fertility and nutrient management dimension for Africa's forest-based, maize mixed, cereal-root crop mixed, and agro-pastoral millet/sorghum farming systems. Use is made of sustainable livelihood concepts, translated into farmer capitals (natural, physical, financial, human, social), and the indicator-based DPSIR (driving force-pressure-state-i...

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Literature Corpus work: d4c6cb2f-3302-5d8d-a3ad-4af21ce6df78
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2006.03.010

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