TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bationo Andre
AU  - Bationo,A.
TI  - Fighting poverty in sub-Saharan Africa: the multiple roles of legumes in integrated soil fertility management 
T2  - Life sciences
SN  - 9789400715356 (hbk.)
U1  - 633.30967 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Dordrecht, New York
PB  - Springer
KW  - Bationo, Waswa, Okeyo, Maina, Kihara and Mokwunye
KW  - Legumes
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Soil management
KW  - Soil fertility
KW  - Agricultural ecology
KW  - Produce trade
KW  - fast
KW  - Bodenfruchtbarkeit
KW  - swd
KW  - Gemüsebau
KW  - Subsaharisches Afrika
N1  - 
Table of contents

1.	Agro-Ecological Distribution of Legumes in farming systems and Identification of Biophysical Niches for Legume growth    1

2.	Socio- Economic contribution of Legumes to livelihoods in sub-Saharan  Africa    27

3.	Inter and Intra-specific variation of Legumes and mechanism to access and adapt to less available soil phosphorus and rock phosphate     47

4.	Legume Based cropping  and soil Biodiversity Dynamics    67

5.	Strategies to adapt, Discriminate and scale out legume based Technologies    85

6.	Comparative Analysis of the current and potential role of Legumes in integrated soil fertility management in West and Central Africa    117

7.	Comparative Analysis of the current and potential role of Legumes in integrated soil fertility management in East Africa    151

8.	Comparative Analysis of the current and potential role of Legumes in integrated soil fertility management in Southern Africa    175

9.	Options for improving plant Nutrition to Increase common Bean productivity in Africa    201

Conclusion    241

Index    243


Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-240) and index
ER  -