Towards Sustainable Food Production in Africa: Best Management Practices and Technologies [Hardcover]

This edited book is focused on Sustainable Development Goal 2. It offers a comprehensive and topical collection of practices, technologies and innovations in the field of sustainable food production and security under a changing climate.  It is a one-stop handbook for farmers, researchers, extensionists, policy makers and other stakeholders seeking to identify and disseminate best fit technologies for local and regional landscapes. It offers an understanding of the challenges, risks and uncertainties as well as opportunities to foster productive and sustainable food production.

Smallholder farming and agriculture in general is facing a serious threat from climate change that has resulted in erratic and unpredictable rainfall and increased temperatures, among other abiotic stresses. These climate change induced pressures have reduced productivity mainly among the smallholder farmers, who are critical in driving the attainment of sustainable development goals like SDG 2,12 and 13.

The objective of the book is to document effective and practicable practices and technologies that can be adopted by smallholder African farmers as mitigation measures against the effects of climate change. This book is of interest to researchers, agricultural scientists, climate change scientists, capacity builders and policymakers.

PART 1. TECHNOLOGIES FOR SOIL FERTILITY MANAGEMENT.- Chapter 1. Animal manure and soil fertility management on smallholdings in South Africa.- Chapter 2. Integrated soil fertility management for soil fertility restoration in subSaharan Africa.- Chapter 3. Integrated Soil Fertility Management: A Basis for Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Based Cropping Systems of Southern Africa.- Chapter 4. Insights of microbial inoculants in complementing organic soil fertility management in African smallholder farming systems.-  Chapter 5. Potential of Agroforestry Technologies and Mineral FlCn