What is it about?
The paper is about the often overlooked cultural dimension of soil fertility management
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Why is it important?
The soil enunciates on the peculiarity of African soils, which are generally known of r their low cation-exchange-capacity (CEC), thus stressing the need to address soil health through a holistic approach recognizing the incorporation of both organic and inorganic mineralization in soils.
Perspectives
The analysis of the paper is ingenious because of its ability to combine social science theories with those of natural sciences in relation to knowledge production
Prof Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole
University of Botswana
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This page is a summary of: Soils, science and the politics of knowledge: How African smallholder farmers are framed and situated in the global debates on integrated soil fertility management, Land Use Policy, January 2013, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.04.006.
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