Building and Assessing Soil Health Across the CCRP Program: A cross-cutting soils effort within McKnight communities of practice
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Daté : juillet 2019
Auteurs : Blessing Magonziwa , Steven Fonte , Steven Vanek
A poster summarising information about a project to implement a Soil Tool Kit which can be used by partners on smallholder farms to collect information about soil health and build a better understanding of the impact of management, crop rotations, forages and residue management.
Smallholder Soil Health Assessment
Note: This resource was added to this database as part of a migration of resources from the now defunct CCRP Sphaera platform, and is still awaiting a comprehensive review and quality check.
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East_Africa_CoP_poster_2018_Vanek-Soils.pdf
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