Arsi-Negele

The aim of this project is to determine whether building soil organic matter can increase the nutritional security of households in a smallholder wheat system in Ethiopia. We analyzed soil and crop samples along a distance-to-forest gradient, where samples closer to the forest had greater soil organic matter because of the legacy effect of pre-agricultural vegetation, and had greater micronutrient contents in wheat.

Products

Wood and Baudron (2018) Soil organic matter underlies crop nutritional quality and productivity in smallholder agriculture. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 266: 100-108

Data archive

Data for this analysis are achived on KNB

Collaborators

• Stephen Wood - Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies - swood-ecology
• Frédéric Baudron - CIMMYT -