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| Title |
The Challenge of Improving Soil Fertility in Yam Cropping Systems of West Africa
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Plant Science, November 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpls.2017.01953 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Emmanuel Frossard, Beatrice A. Aighewi, Sévérin Aké, Dominique Barjolle, Philipp Baumann, Thomas Bernet, Daouda Dao, Lucien N. Diby, Anne Floquet, Valérie K. Hgaza, Léa J. Ilboudo, Delwende I. Kiba, Roch L. Mongbo, Hassan B. Nacro, Gian L. Nicolay, Esther Oka, Yabile F. Ouattara, Nestor Pouya, Ravinda L. Senanayake, Johan Six, Orokya I. Traoré |
| Abstract |
Yam (Dioscorea spp.) is a tuber crop grown for food security, income generation, and traditional medicine. This crop has a high cultural value for some of the groups growing it. Most of the production comes from West Africa where the increased demand has been covered by enlarging cultivated surfaces while the mean yield remained around 10 t tuber ha-1. In West Africa, yam is traditionally cultivated without input as the first crop after a long-term fallow as it is considered to require a high soil fertility. African soils, however, are being more and more degraded. The aims of this review were to show the importance of soil fertility for yam, discuss barriers that might limit the adoption of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) in yam-based systems in West Africa, present the concept of innovation platforms (IPs) as a tool to foster collaboration between actors for designing innovations in yam-based systems and provide recommendations for future research. This review shows that the development of sustainable, feasible, and acceptable soil management innovations for yam requires research to be conducted in interdisciplinary teams including natural and social sciences and in a transdisciplinary manner involving relevant actors from the problem definition, to the co-design of soil management innovations, the evaluation of research results, their communication and their implementation. Finally, this research should be conducted in diverse biophysical and socio-economic settings to develop generic rules on soil/plant relationships in yam as affected by soil management and on how to adjust the innovation supply to specific contexts. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 111 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 17 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 13% |
| Unknown | 35 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 41 | 37% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 4% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 3 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 16 | 14% |
| Unknown | 39 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
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