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The extent and cost of land degradation
Book chapter
Bringing experts judgments and local knowledge into yield gap assessments: The Sub-Saharan Africa potato case
Potato farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) produce on average 12 % of the potential yield and 24 Mg ha-1 less than yields obtained in experimental stations as evidenced by this study, that implemented an innovative ...
Overgrazing decreases soil organic carbon stocks the most under dry climates and low soil pH: A meta-analysis shows
Grasslands occupy about 40% of the world’s land surface and store approximately 10% of the global soil
organic carbon (SOC) stock. This SOC pool, in which a larger proportion is held in the topsoil (0–0.3 m), is
strongly ...
Improvement of pearl millet module in APSIM. Characterization of the main water stress patterns within pearl millet production agroecologies in A1, A, B zone (focus on A1&A)
Since tillering is one of the key environmental adaptive mechanism of sorghum&pearl millet (e.g. vanOosterom et al 1998, Jordan et al 2003, Borrell et al 2015), availability of a dynamic tillering module is a crucial feature ...