Improving the Profitability, Sustainability and Efficiency of Nutrients Through Site Specific Fertilizer Recommendations
Improving fertilizer recommendations for increased return from fertilizer investments and optimized crop response to fertilizer has been a major area of investigation of IFDC. Since 2008, IFDC through its Natural Resource Management (NRM) Program has part
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mproving the Profitability, Sustainability and Efficiency of Nutrients Through Site Specific Fertilizer Recommendations in West Africa Agro-Ecosystems Volume 1
Improving the Profitability, Sustainability and Efficiency of Nutrients Through Site Specific Fertilizer Recommendations in West Africa Agro-Ecosystems
Andre Bationo • Djimasbe´ Ngaradoum Sansan Youl • Francois Lompo Joseph Opoku Fening Editors
Improving the Profitability, Sustainability and Efficiency of Nutrients Through Site Specific Fertilizer Recommendations in West Africa Agro-Ecosystems Volume 1
Editors Andre Bationo IFDC Accra, Ghana
Djimasbe´ Ngaradoum Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture Conakry, Guinea
Sansan Youl IFDC-Ouaga Ouagadougou 11, Burkina Faso
Francois Lompo INERA Ouagadougou 4, Burkina Faso
Joseph Opoku Fening Soil Research Institute CSIR Soil Research Institute Kumasi, Ghana
ISBN 978-3-319-58788-2 ISBN 978-3-319-58789-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58789-9
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Preface
The population in West Africa has quadrupled over the last 50 years, and this rapid growth has had a huge impact on the food demand and natural resources. Food production per capita has declined for the past several decades in West Africa, the only major region of the developing world where this has occurred. This trend is putting at stake the livelihoods of the poor in the region and poses a daunting challenge to rural communities and regional and national policy makers. Poor land use and management result in soil and water erosion, depleted soil
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