Management of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Fertilizers in Sub-Saharan Africa

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Fertilizer problems and policies in sub-Saharan Africa

   • Mohinder S. Mudahar

   Pages 1-32

3. Constraints to fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa

   • John Mclntire

   Pages 33-57

4. Fertility of soils of tropical Africa: a historical perspective

   • H. Ssali, P. M. Ahn, A. Mokwunye

   Pages 59-82

5. Cropping systems and soil fertility management in the humid and subhumid tropics with special reference to West Africa

   • B. T. Kang

   Pages 83-94

6. Biological nitrogen fixation and soil fertility maintenance

   • Y. R. Dommergues, F. Ganry

   Pages 95-115

7. Management of nitrogen fertilizers for tropical African soils

   • S. K. Mughogho, A. Bationo, B. Christianson, P. L. G. Vlek

   Pages 117-172

8. Phosphate deposits of tropical sub-Saharan Africa

   • G. H. McClellan, A. J. G. Notholt

   Pages 173-223

9. Processing phosphate ores into fertilizers

   • Amitava H. Roy, Guerry H. McClellan

   Pages 225-252

10. Phosphate reactions with tropical African soils

    • A. Mokwunye, S. H. Chien, E. Rhodes

    Pages 253-281

11. Agronomic evaluation of phosphate fertilizers in tropical Africa

    • A. Bationo, S. K. Mughogho, U. Mokwunye

    Pages 283-318

12. Economic evaluation of alternative fertilizer technologies for tropical African agriculture

    • Carlos A. Baanante

    Pages 319-362

Food security, one of the basic human rights, seems to be ever eluding the people of sub-Saharan Africa. With each occurrence of crop failure, agriculturalists around the world reawaken to the challenge of ensuring sta­ ble, adequate food production in the tropical African environments. The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), with its mandate of alleviating food shortages through judicial use of fertilizers, formulated a program to study fertilizer use strategies for sub-Saharan Africa. With gener­ ous financial assistance from the International Fund for Agricultural Devel­ opment (IFAD), IFDC, in collaboration with the International Crop Re­ search Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IIT A), initiated a research project aimed at assessing means to remedy soil nutrient deficiencies that constrain food production in the humid, subhumid, and semiarid tropics of Africa. The results of this project were summarized during a workshop held in Togo, March 25-28, 1985; the proceedings of that meetings are found in this vol­ ume. The project established collaboration with numerous national programs that were responsible for much of the data collection. The data presented in Chapters 6 and 9 include much of this information. We wish to acknowledge the contribution of the individual scientists, J.T. Ambe, F. Ganry, M. Gaoh, M. Issaka, J. Kiazolu, J. Kikafunde-Twine, K. Kpomblekou, F. Lompo, H.

• Fertilizer
• agriculture
• environment
• soil

• Agro-Economic Division, IFDC, Muscle Shoals, USA

  A. Uzo Mokwunye, Paul L. G. Vlek

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