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  • Projects and activities | 11 Jun 2019

ConneSSA – CONNEcting knowledge, scales and actors; An integrated framework for adaptive organic resource management targeting soil aggradation and agroecosystems’ resilience in SSA

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Brief me

Sustainable intensification of smallholder agriculture is fundamental to food security, poverty reduction and conservation of natural resources in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Soil degradation is a major driver of poor agricultural productivity. This implies low resource use efficiencies, including fertilizer, water and labour inputs, and entails low resilience of food systems to climate variability. Effective measures for rehabilitation (or aggradation) of degraded soils rely on organic amendments and agronomic practices that increase soil organic matter. However, variation in social and biophysical contexts across SSA underpins the need to target aggradation measures to the local context, including locally available soil amendments.