Highlights: The thematic focus of this knowledge review is on the role of fertilisers and soil health in increasing local food production. Promoting a greater use of fertilisers is a usual policy response...
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Highlights: Evidence on agricultural input quality is mostly (1) in Sub-Saharan Africa (2) focused on urea fertilizer, hybrid seed, and glyphosate herbicide. Better evidentiary standards...
These technical guidelines outline the role that soil health plays in the nutritional quality of food and provide soil management recommendations to increase the supply of micronutrients to the food chain...
Soil health is commonly defined as the ability to generate sufficient crop yields while maintaining the future productive capacity of soils and the ecosystem services soils regulate and deliver...
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We reviewed inorganic fertilizer use and rice yield in 24 sub-Saharan African countries.
N and P fertilizer rates were higher in irrigated...
Rice production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has increaed ten-fold since 1961, whereas its consumption has exceeded the production and the regional self-sufficiency rate is only 48%...
Can farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) boost crop yields and improve food availability without using more mineral fertilizer? This question has been at the center...
Increased fertilizer use is often an essential component of sustainable intensification for improved food security and economic growth in the upper elevation tropical savanna (UTS) and lower elevation...
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This book is a compilation of 35 blog posts written by IFPRI. Together, they provide an overview of how the crisis has progressed, how the international community and...
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This study explores innovation types that impact agricultural productivity in SSA.
The two-ways FE is applied to a sample of 22 countries from 1996 to 2014.
The results...