Agriculture in Africa: Strategies to improve and sustain smallholder production systems

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1136, Issue , 2008, Pages 218-232

  Jama, Bashir ^a   Pizarro, Gonzalo ^a  

^a UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Fertilizers; Green revolution; Millennium Development Goals; Millennium villages; Soil fertility

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ASIA; FOOD SECURITY; INDUSTRY AND INDUSTRIAL PHENOMENA; POVERTY; PRODUCTIVITY; REVIEW; SOIL FERTILITY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; WATER MANAGEMENT; WEATHER;

EID: 45549089375     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1425.034     Document Type: Review

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