Restoring the fertility of Africa's degraded lands: the process approach

Regions
  • Africa
  • World
From Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
Publication year 1993
Publication authors
  • Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Publication Type Magazine or Press item
Full Citation CTA. 1993. Restoring the fertility of Africa's degraded lands: the process approach. Spore 47. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Abstract

The scale of the problem may be subject to debate - but there is no doubting that land degradation is one of the most serious threats to food production over much of Africa. In extreme cases land may be so badly degraded that it is abandoned by...