The DOI matches its Crossref record; 17 of the 17 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Integrated Soil Fertility Management: Operational Definition and Consequences for Implementation and Dissemination
Open accessAbstract
Traditional farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa depend primarily on mining soil nutrients. The African green revolution aims to intensify agriculture through the dissemination of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM). This paper develops a robust and operational definition of ISFM based on detailed knowledge of African farming systems and their inherent variability and of the optimal use of nutrients. The authors define ISFM as a set of soil fertility management practices that necessarily include the use of fertilizer, organic inputs and improved germplasm, combined with the knowledge on how to adapt these practices to local conditions, aimed at maximizing agronomic use efficiency of the applied nutrients and improving crop productivity. All inputs need to be managed in accordance with sound agronomic principles. The integration of ISFM practices into farming systems is illustrated with the dual-purpose grain legume–maize rotations in the savannas and fertilizer micro-dosing in the Sahel. Finally, the dissemination of ISFM practices is discussed.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis
Assessment, M. E. (2005) · Island Press · doi:10.5281/zenodo.18167309 · Cited by 10,665
African Journal of Agricultural Research
(2026) · African Journal of Agricultural Research · doi:10.5897/ajar · Cited by 4,068
Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics
Sanchez, P. A. (1977) · Soil Science · doi:10.1097/00010694-197709000-00012 · Cited by 1,308
(2001) · Cited by 829
Exploring diversity in soil fertility management of smallholder farms in western Kenya
Tittonell, P., Vanlauwe, B., Leffelaar, P. A., Rowe, E. C., & Giller, K. E. (2005) · Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment · doi:10.1016/j.agee.2005.04.001 · Cited by 359
Self-citationBationo, A., Lompo, F., & KOALA, S. (1998) · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · doi:10.1016/s0167-8809(98)00129-7 · Cited by 275
Self-citationResource use dynamics and interactions in the tropics: Scaling up in space and time
Giller, K. E., Rowe, E. C., de Ridder, N., & van Keulen, H. (2006) · Agricultural Systems · doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2005.06.016 · Cited by 273
Self-citationExploring diversity in soil fertility management of smallholder farms in western Kenya
Tittonell, P., Vanlauwe, B., Leffelaar, P. A., Shepherd, K. D., & Giller, K. E. (2005) · Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment · doi:10.1016/j.agee.2005.04.003 · Cited by 261
Self-citationZingore, S., Murwira, H. K., Delve, R. J., & Giller, K. E. (2007) · Field Crops Research · doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2006.12.006 · Cited by 209
Self-citationThe African Millennium Villages
Sanchez, P., Palm, C., Sachs, J., Denning, G., Flor, R., Harawa, R., Jama, B., Kiflemariam, T., Konecky, B., Kozar, R., et al. (2007) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0700423104 · Cited by 200
Vanlauwe, B., Tittonell, P., & Mukalama, J. (2007) · Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems · doi:10.1007/s10705-005-8314-1 · Cited by 187
Self-citationShepherd, K. D., & Soule, M. J. (1998) · Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment · doi:10.1016/s0167-8809(98)00136-4 · Cited by 180
Self-citationPrudencio, C. Y. (1993) · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · doi:10.1016/0167-8809(93)90125-9 · Cited by 157
Combined Application of Organic Matter and Fertilizer
Vanlauwe, B., Wendt, J., & Diels, J. (2001) · SSSA special publication series · doi:10.2136/sssaspecpub58.ch12 · Cited by 146
Self-citationKanampiu, F. K., Kabambe, V. H., Massawe, C., Jasi, L., Friesen, D. K., Ransom, J. K., & Gressel, J. (2003) · Crop Protection · doi:10.1016/s0261-2194(03)00007-3 · Cited by 137
Agricultural intensification in the Sahel – The ladder approach
Aune, J. B., & Bationo, A. (2008) · Agricultural Systems · doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2008.05.002 · Cited by 132
Self-citationScientific evaluation of smallholder land use knowledge in Central Kenya
Mairura, F., Mugendi, D. N., Mwanje, J., Ramisch, J. J., Mbugua, P. K., & Chianu, J. N. (2007) · Land Degradation and Development · doi:10.1002/ldr.815 · Cited by 46
Self-citation
Cited by
Soil structure and microbiome functions in agroecosystems
Hartmann, M., & Six, J. (2022) · Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · doi:10.1038/s43017-022-00366-w · Cited by 1,294
Tittonell, P., & Giller, K. E. (2013) · Field Crops Research · doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2012.10.007 · Cited by 1,098
Self-citationBiochar application to low fertility soils: A review of current status, and future prospects
El-Naggar, A., Lee, S. S., Rinklebe, J., Farooq, M., Song, H., Sarmah, A. K., Zimmerman, A. R., Ahmad, M., Shaheen, S. M., & Ok, Y. S. (2019) · Geoderma · doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.09.034 · Cited by 959
The role of biochar and biochar-compost in improving soil quality and crop performance: a review
Agegnehu, G., Srivastava, A. K., & Bird, M. I. (2017) · Applied Soil Ecology · doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.06.008 · Cited by 928
Agegnehu, G., Bass, A. M., Nelson, P. N., & Bird, M. I. (2016) · Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.054 · Cited by 909
Metadata
- Authors
- Vanlauwe, B., Bationo, A., Chianu, J., Giller, K. E., Merckx, R., Mokwunye, U., Ohiokpehai, O., Pypers, P., Tabo, R., Shepherd, K. D., Smaling, E. M. A., Woomer, P. L., & Sanginga, N.
- Venue
- Outlook on Agriculture
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-03
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 17-24
- ISSN
- 0030-7270 (ISSN-L)
- 2043-6866
- OpenAlex
- W2168921100
- Cited by
- 758
- References
- 17
- FWCI
- 41.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
