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A Guide for Soil Health and Fertility for Maize production in Kenya

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This outreach material synthetesizes the most important results of two research articles, with the aim to make it attractive and easy to understand for smallholders. The articles focused on the long-term effect of organic resource and mineral nitrogen applicaiton on soil organic matter and maize yield in maize monocropping systems in Kenya. https://soil.copernicus.org/articles/9/301/2023/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378429022003598

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14025426

Authors: Nyaga, Patrick, Yegon, Rebecca, Laub, Moritz, Six, Johan

Institutions: Farm Africa Kenya, University of Embu, ETH Zurich

Language: English

Topic: Agricultural Science and Fertilization

Subfield: Soil Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: Zero hunger, Life on land

Open Access status: green

Funders: European Commission, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung