Empirical assessment of Sub-Saharan Africa’s soil fertility has confirmed that the region faces a significant decline in soil fertility, which could further aggravate food insecurity if no appropriate action is taken.
The finding of the assessment has been the point of discussion at a regional workshop, conducted in Nairobi, Kenya last week. The workshop, with a theme “Advancing Integrated Soil and Water Management for Climate-Adapted Land Use in Low-Fertility Areas of Sub- Saharan Africa”, was organized by the United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES), in partnership with the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA), World Agro forestry Centre (ICRAF) and Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany. Read more
