Restoring soil fertility in sub-sahara Africa

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 108, Issue C, 2010, Pages 183-236

  Bekunda, Mateete ^a   Sanginga, Nteranya ^b   Woomer, Paul L ^c  

^a KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture   (Kenya)

^c Forum for Organic Resource Management and Agricultural Technology   (Kenya)

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EID: 77956584538     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2113(10)08004-1     Document Type: Book

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