Fertile ground? : soil fertility management and the African smallholder

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dc.contributor.authorMisiko, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-16T12:57:23Z
dc.date.available2008-06-16T12:57:23Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.descriptionThesis, Wageningen Universiteit, 2007en
dc.description.abstractMisiko, M 2007. Fertile Ground? Soil fertility management and the African smallholder. Ph.D. Thesis, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 146 pp. // The focus in this thesis is to form a view of how well soil fertility research performs within the ever shifting smallholder contexts. This study examined application of agroecological knowledge for soil fertility management by smallholder farmers, with the view to enhancing the utility of research among resource-deprived farmers of western Kenya. // A realist methodological approach to the study of soil management was applied. It is shown that soil fertility management operates under the assumption that consequences (soil management) are to be explained not just by contextual states (in this case farmer knowledge) but by “mechanisms” of decision making and soil management that need to be uncovered. Knowledge is nothing unless it engages with real soil management processes…en
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dc.format.extent146 p. : ill.en
dc.identifier.isbn878-90-8504-654-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10625/35358
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWageningen Universiteit, Wageningen, NLen
dc.subjectFARMERSen
dc.subjectSMALLHOLDERSen
dc.subjectSOIL IMPROVEMENTen
dc.subjectCHOICE OF TECHNOLOGYen
dc.subjectEXPERIMENTATIONen
dc.subjectON-FARM RESEARCHen
dc.subjectPARTICIPATORY RESEARCHen
dc.subjectKENYAen
dc.titleFertile ground? : soil fertility management and the African smallholderen
dc.typeThesisen
idrc.dspace.accessIDRC Onlyen
idrc.project.number103081
idrc.project.titleCommunity Based Interactive Learning and its Application to Soil Fertility Management (Kenya) - Phase IIen
idrc.rims.adhocgroupIDRC SUPPORTEDen

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