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Dynamics and Diversity : Soil Fertility and Farming Livelihoods in Africa, EPUB eBook

Dynamics and Diversity : Soil Fertility and Farming Livelihoods in Africa EPUB

Edited by Ian Scoones

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Soils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and livelihoods.

Sustainable management of soils is crucial for a large proportion of the population of Africa.

Contrary to many claims, soil fertility is improved and managed successfully by small-scale farmers there.

Careful studies from widely different areas reveal how closely bound up soil management is with complex social, cultural and ecological factors - requiring a far more subtly tuned approach to development policy and practice.

This work is a study of how the context of livelihood systems has to inform development policy and practice.

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