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Vlek, PLG, Le QB, Tamene L. In Press. Soil quality and food security.

2010

Chianu, JN, Huising J, Danso S, Okoth P, Chianu JN, Sanginga N. 2010. Financial Value of Nitrogen Fixation in Soybean in Africa: Increasing Beneﬁts for Smallholder Farmers. Journal of Life Sciences. 4(6)

MacMillan, RA, Hartemink A, McBratney A, Walsh M, Jacquier D, Thompson J, Odgers N, Waddell A, Hengl T, Greve M. 2010. A Proof of Concept Project to Apply and Compare Alternative DSM Methods in Several Test Areas.

Okoth, P, Huising J, Jefwa J, Okoth S, Ayuke F, Mung J. 2010. The Solution to Global Warming Could Be in the Soil. 14th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Tondoh, EJ. 2010. From earthworm biostimulation to ecological engineering.

Terhoeven-Urselmans, T, Shepherd KD. 2010. Application of a global soil spectral library as tool for soil quality assessment in Sub-Saharan Africa. A EUFAR Workshop on Quantitative Applications of Soil Spectroscopy.

Adolwa, IS, Esilaba AO, Okoth P, Mulwa MR. 2010. Factors inﬂuencing uptake of integrated soil fertility management knowledge among smallholder farmers in western Kenya. 12th KARI Biennial Scientiﬁc Conference: Transforming agriculture for improved livelihoods through agricultural product value chains.

Sachs, JD, Remans R, Smukler S, Winowiecki L, Andelman SJ, Cassman KG, Castle D, Defries R, Denning G, Fanzo J et al.. 2010. Monitoring the world’s agriculture. Nature. 466(7306) Abstract

Boettinger, JL, Howell DW, Moore AM, Hartemink AE, Kienast-Brown S. 2010. Digital Soil Mapping: Bridging Research, Production, and Environmental Application. :439.

Hartemink, AE, Hempel J, McBratney AB, McKenzie NJ, Montanarella L, Mendon L. 2010. Digital Soil Mapping: Bridging Research, Production, and Environmental Application..

Tittonell, P, Muriuki A, Shepherd KD, Mugendi D, Kaizzi KC, Okeyo J, Verchot L, Coe R, Vanlauwe B. 2010. The diversity of rural livelihoods and their influence on soil fertility in agricultural systems of East Africa. Agricultural Systems. 103:83.

Rwakaikara-Silver, BE, Isabirye A, Akol C, Nkwiine M, Okwakol JN, Huising J, Okoth P, Brooijmans W, Etyang TB. 2010. Ecology and Management of Soil Biodiversity in Mabira forest, Uganda: Towards Conservation and Sustainable Management.

Sjögren H, Shepherd KD, Karlsson A. 2010. Effects of improved fallow with Sesbania sesban on maize productivity and Striga hermonthica infestation in Western Kenya. Journal of Forestry Research . 21 (3):379−386.

MacMillan, RA, Hartemink AE, McBratney AB. 2010. GlobalSoilMap.net - From planning, development and proof of concept to fullscale production mapping. Proceedings 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Brisbane, Australia.

Palm, CA, Smukler SM, Sullivan CC, Mutuo PK, Nyadzi GI, Walsh MG. 2010. Identifying potential synergies and trade-offs for meeting food security and climate change objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. PNAS.

Vanlauwe, B, Bationo A, Chianu J, Giller KE, Merckx R, Mokwunye U, Ohiokpehai O, Pypers P, Tabo R, Shepherd KD et al.. 2010. Integrated soil fertility management: Operational definition and consequences for implementation and dissemination. Outlook on Agriculture. 39 Abstract

Winowiecki, L, Vagen T-G, Walsh M, Sanchez P. 2010. Landscape-scale sampling of forest-derived carbon in East Africa. 19th World Soil Congress.

Terhoeven-Urselmans, T, Vågen T-G, Spaargaren O, Shepherd KD. 2010. Prediction of soil fertility properties from a global soil mid-infrared spectral library implemented in R. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 74:1792–1799.

Sanchez, PA. 2010. Tripling crop yields in tropical Africa. Nature Geoscience . 3:299–300.

Montanarella, L, Wilson P, Cox S, McBratney A, Ahamed S, McMillan B, Jacquier D, Fortner J. 2010. Developing SoilML as a global standard for the collation and transfer of soil data and information. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol 12.

Tamene, L. 2010. Ex-Ente Analysis of the Impact of Management Scenarios on Reversing Land Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Preliminary Study Based on Coarse Resolution Data.

Shepherd, KD. 2010. Soil spectral diagnostics . Proceedings 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Brisbane, Australia..

2009

Barois, I, Huising J, Okoth P, Trejo D, de Santos LM. 2009. Below-ground Biodiversity in Sierra de Santa Marta, Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico.. :262.

Sanchez, PA, Ahamed S, Carr F, Hartemink AE, Hempel J, Huising J, Lagacherie P, McBratney AB, McKenzie NJ, Mendon MDL et al.. 2009. Digital Soil Map of the World. Science. 325:680.

Walsh, MG, Ahamed S, Hartemink AE, Huising J, Okoth P, Palm CA, Sanchez PA, Sanginga N, Shepherd KD, Vågen TG et al.. 2009. A new information system for managing sub-Saharan Africa's soil: Why and how? Proceedings 9th International Conference of the East and Southeast Asia Federation of Soil Science Societies, KSSSF-RDA, Seoul, Korea.