Tripling crop yields in tropical Africa
Abstract
Between 1960 and 2000, Asian and Latin American food production tripled, thanks to the use of high-yielding varieties of crops. Africa can follow suit, but only if depletion of soil nutrients is addressed.
- Publication:
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Nature Geoscience
- Pub Date:
- May 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1038/ngeo853
- Bibcode:
- 2010NatGe...3..299S