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The Biological Management of Tropical Soil Fertility (Hardcover)
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The Biological Management of Tropical Soil Fertility (Hardcover)
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Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Programme (TSBF) TSBF was
established in 1984 under the patronage of the Man and Biosphere
programme of Unesco and the Decade of the Tropics initiative of the
International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS). The objective of
the programme is to develop appropriate and innovative approaches
for sustaining tropical soil fertility through the management of
biological processes and organic resources. To achieve this
objective, TSBF aspires to:
* make available to farmers and other land managers in the tropics
methods of soil management which will improve agricultural
productivity but conserve the soil resource
* contribute to increasing the carbon storage equilibrium in
tropical soils in the face of global changes in land use and
climate
* improve understanding of the role of biological resources in soil
fertility and the sustainability of tropical land-use systems
* improve the research and training capacity of national
institutions in the tropics in the fields of soil biology and
management of tropical ecosystems.
TSBF is a voluntary participatory international research programme
whose members are committed to the concept that the fertility of
tropical soils is controlled by biological processes and can be
managed by the manipulation of these processes. Research is
conducted at both the ecosystem level and the process level on the
basis of two principles: that the capacity to manage soil fertility
depends on a mechanistic understanding of the biological processes
regulating nutrient flux, organic matter dynamics and soil physical
structure maintenance, and that successful management for
sustainable soil fertility must be implemented at the ecosystem
level by integrating soil biological processes with those of human
decision making in relation to all components of the ecosystem.
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