Fertility and Management of Tropical Soils

As of May, CIAT's Library is exhibiting books, thesis, reports and other documents on "Fertility and Management of Tropical Soils”. The exhibition includes: tropical soils; soil conservation; integrated soil management; soil biology; African soils; Andean soils, among others. Some of the publications are listed below:

• Integrated soil fertility management options for agricultural intensification in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa. 2008. Bationo, André.



• Seminario Regional sobre Evaluación de Estrategias y Acciones de Manejo y Conservación de Suelos de Ladera para el Desarrollo Sostenible (1996, Ibarra, Ecuador). 1996. Chirinos, Félix José; Pérez S., Elio A. (eds.).
  


• Soil fertility management in Africa : A regional perspective. 2003. Gichuru, M.P.; Bationo, André; Bekunda, M.A.; Goma, H.C.; Mafongoya, P.L.; Mugendi, Daniel N.; Murwira, Herbert K.; Nandwa, S.M.; Nyathi, P.; Swift, M.J. (eds.).
  


• Advances in integrated soil fertility management in Sub-Saharan Africa : Challenges and opportunities. 2007. Bationo, André; Waswa, Boaz S.; Kihara, Job; Kimetu, Joseph (eds.).
  


• Suelos del trópico : Características y manejo. 1981. Sánchez, Pedro A.



• Soil fertility decline in the tropics with case studies in plantations. 2003. Hartemink, Alfred E.
  


• Nature's plow: Soil macroinvertebrate communities in the neotropical savannas of Colombia. 2001. Jiménez Jaén, Juan José; Thomas, Richard J. (eds.).
  


• Towards integrated soil fertility management in Tanzania: Developing farmers' options and responsive policies in the context of prevailing agro-ecological, socio-economic and institutional conditions. 2002. Ley, George; Baltissen, Gerard; Veldkamp, Wietze; Nyaki, Adolph; Schrader, Ted.
  


• Manejo productivo de suelos para cultivos de alto rendimiento. 2001. García Ocampo, Alvaro; Valenzuela B., Ivonne G. (eds.).



• Monitoring and evaluation of soil conservation and watershed development projects. 2007. Graaff, J. de; Cameron, John; Sombatpanit, Samran; Pieri, Christian; Woodhill, Jim (eds.).
  


• Sustaining growth : Soil fertility management in tropical smallholdings. 1994. Müller-Sämann, Karl M.; Kotschi, Johannes.
  


• Fertility of soils : A future for farming in the West African Savannas. 1992. Pieri, Christian J.M.G.
  


• Soil conservation in Andean cropping systems : Soil erosion and crop productivity in traditional and forage-legume based cassava cropping systems in the South Colombian Andes. 1995. Ruppenthal, Martin.
  


• Conservation and sustainable management of below-ground biodiversity in Indonesia. 2005. Susilo, F.X.; Gafur, Abdul; Utomo, Muhajir; Evizal, Rusdi; Murwani, Sri; Swibawa, I Gede (eds.).
  


• The biological management of tropical soil fertility. 1994. Woomer, Paul L.; Swift, M.J. (eds.).
  

A complete list of the exhibition's publications can be found in PDF (39 kb).