1. [African agriculture faced with global changes: researches and innovations based on ecological sciences].
- Author
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Masse D, Ndour Badiane Y, Hien E, Akpo LÉ, Assigbetsé K, Bilgo A, Diédhiou I, Hien V, and Lardy L
- Subjects
- Africa, Africa South of the Sahara, Africa, Western, Biomass, Conservation of Natural Resources, Ecosystem, Environment, Food Supply, Humans, Plants parasitology, Recycling, Soil, Agriculture trends, Ecology trends
- Abstract
In the context of environmental and socio-economic changes, the agriculture of Sub-Saharan African countries will have to ensure food security of the population, while reducing its environmental footprint. The biophysical and social systems of agricultural production are complex. Innovative agricultural practices will be based on an intensification of ecological processes that determine the functioning of the soil-plant system, farmers' fields and agro-ecosystems. This ecological engineering approach is useful to take up the challenge of Sub-Saharan agricultures in the future, as shown in researches conducted by IESOL International Joint Lab "Intensification of agricultural soils in West Africa" (ISRA, UCAD, TU, OU, INERA, IRD)., (Copyright © 2013 Académie des sciences. Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.)
- Published
- 2013
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