Affordable nutrient solutions for improved food security as evidenced by crop trials.

The continuing depletion of nutrients from agricultural soils in Sub-Saharan African is accompanied by a lack of substantial progress in crop yield improvement. In this paper we investigate yield gaps for corn under two scenarios: a micro-dosing scenario with marginal increases in nitrogen (N) and p...

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Main Authors: Marijn van der Velde, Linda See, Liangzhi You, Juraj Balkovič, Steffen Fritz, Nikolay Khabarov, Michael Obersteiner, Stanley Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3615004?pdf=render