Sustainable agriculture: New paradigms and old practices? Increased production with management of organic inputs in Senegal

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 285-296

  Diop, Amadou Makhtar ^a  

^a Rodale Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal manure; Compost; Farmers exchange; Local resources; Participatory approach; Regenerative agriculture; Rock phosphate; Soil fertility and management; Traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0012385087     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1010026922142     Document Type: Article

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