Fertiliser trees for sustainable food security in the maize-based production systems of East and Southern Africa

Sustainable Agriculture

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 129-146

  Akinnifesi, Festus K ^a   Ajayi, O C ^a   Sileshi, G ^a   Chirwa, P W ^b   Chianu, Jonas ^a  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Integrated soil fertility management; N fixing legumes; Scaling up

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881443880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0394-0_9     Document Type: Chapter

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