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View article: Smallholder farms have and can store more carbon than previously estimated
Smallholder farms have and can store more carbon than previously estimated Open
Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks is increasingly targeted as a key strategy in climate change mitigation and improved ecosystem resiliency. Agricultural land, a dominant global land use, provides substantial challenges and oppor…
View article: Current knowledge on practices targeting soil fertility and agricultural land rehabilitation in the Sahel. A review
Current knowledge on practices targeting soil fertility and agricultural land rehabilitation in the Sahel. A review Open
Implementing sustainable production practices to rehabilitate soils is a grand challenge of our day, particularly for resource-poor farmers. The West African Sahel requires attention to balancing the need for increasing agricultural produc…
View article: Barriers to sustainable intensification: overlooked disconnects between agricultural extension and farmer practice in maize-legume cropping systems in Tanzania
Barriers to sustainable intensification: overlooked disconnects between agricultural extension and farmer practice in maize-legume cropping systems in Tanzania Open
Effective extension systems are vital to smallholder agriculture. Education on sustainable management involves complex interactions and communication flows among information providers and practitioners. Farmer practice is often overlooked …
View article: Documentation of farmer perceptions and site‐specific properties to improve soil management on smallholder farms in Tanzania
Documentation of farmer perceptions and site‐specific properties to improve soil management on smallholder farms in Tanzania Open
Identifying sustainable land management practices within smallholder agriculture is a challenge. This is partly driven by the challenge of documenting farmers' perspectives and practices in an integrated manner with site‐specific scientifi…
Investigating the diverse potential of a multi-purpose legume, Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet, for smallholder production in East Africa Open
Climate change is posing severe challenges in Africa, where resilient crops are urgently needed to withstand drought periods and unreliable rainfall. Multi-purpose legume species, such as lablab (Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet), have been und…
View article: Lablab Genotype and Cropping System Experiment
Lablab Genotype and Cropping System Experiment Open
This dataset includes raw data from a field trial evaluating lablab accessions in northern Tanzania. The trial was conducted at two sites in northern Tanzania and data was collected in 2016 and 2017. The trial was a modified split-plot des…
View article: Lablab_Accession_Trials_Biomass.tab
Lablab_Accession_Trials_Biomass.tab Open
2016 and 2017 plant biomass amounts sampled.
View article: Lablab_Accession_Trials_15N_2017 (RAW DATA).tab
Lablab_Accession_Trials_15N_2017 (RAW DATA).tab Open
Raw data of 15N analysis on 2017 plant samples
View article: Lablab_Accession_Trials_15N_2016 (RAW DATA).tab
Lablab_Accession_Trials_15N_2016 (RAW DATA).tab Open
Raw data of 15N analysis on 2016 plant samples