Agroforestry practices may influence pest incidence and abundance both through increased
top-down regulation by natural enemies and via bottom-up factors such as moderation of …

The negative effects of soil fertility depletion on food security, especially among smallholder
farmers in Africa, is of economic importance, and may be worsened by climate change and …

The recent interest in multi-functional agricultural landscapes has not been matched with
formal assessment of the roles that trees play across the spectrum of ecosystem services …

A number of studies have tested the effect of woody and herbaceous legumes on soil fertility
and maize yields in sub-Saharan Africa. However, their effects on maize productivity are …

Low soil fertility is one of the most important biophysical constraints to increasing agricultural
productivity in sub‐Saharan Africa. Several renewable soil fertility replenishment (RSFR) …

In response to the declining soil fertility in southern Africa and the negative effects that this
leads to, such as food insecurity besides other developmental challenges, fertilizer tree …

The hypothesis that the optimal nitrogen rate for crop yield and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE)
are affected by tillage treatment, crop type and soil properties (type) was evaluated by an …

Integrating agroforestry trees such as Faidherbia albida (F. albida) into cropland improves
soil fertility and maintains persistence of associated beneficial microorganisms such as …

Over the last decades, considerable attention has been paid to the identification and
introduction of suitable tree species in agroecosystems to simultaneously address soil …

The benefits obtained by the growing population from the local and global environment have
been termed ecosystem services (ESs). Given the continuous degradation in environmental …