Greater investment in sustainable production, including healthier soils and climate-resilient seed systems, is key to strengthening Africa’s food systems, while finance and markets are important in helping farmers adopt new practices and withstand shocks, African agricultural experts say.
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Tropical croplands sit on strongly weathered soils where soil functions and ecosystem services such as carbon storage are constrained by texture, mineralogy, climate, and pedogenesis, making direct comparison with temperate-derived soil health benchmarks unreliable. Here we develop a region-specific soil health assessment protocol and evaluation for Sub-Saharan Africa that benchmarks soil health indicators (e.g., organic carbon) against…
