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Soil Fertility Key to Reducing Hunger in Tropical Africa

June 8, 2010 1 comment

 
Replenishing soil fertility, by using mineral and organic fertilisers, could triple crop yields in tropical Africa, according to Pedro A. Sánchez from the Earth Institute.
In Asia and Latin America food production tripled between the 1960s and 2000 thanks to the use of high-yielding crop varieties, but Sánchez says that a similar success is hampered in



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