1 Introduction
Demands on soil resources are expected to intensify in the years ahead in areas with a rapidly expanding population, such as Africa, where the annual population increase is 3.2%
Although reserves of potential cropland area are still available in sub Saharan Africa, much of this land is marginal
Therefore, because of the limited availability of productive land, it is important to safeguard this non-renewable resource for present and future usa.
In sub Saharan Africa, overexploitation of natural vegetation and soil resources, without any external chemical, to meet the ever increasing need ior food, animal feed, fibre, and fuelwood has already resulted in accelerated land degradation and loss of soil productivity (Stoorvogel et al 1993 Tolba 1993)
Despite many decades of research on the intensification of agriculture on rainfed uplands in the humid and subhumid tropics, efforts to develop alternative, sustainable and more productive food crop production systems have thus far had only limited success (Kang et al 1991)
1 IntroductionDemands on soil resources are expected to intensify in the years ahead in areas with a rapidly expanding population, such as Africa, where the annual population increase is 3.2% Although reserves of potential cropland area are still available in sub Saharan Africa, much of this land is marginalTherefore, because of the limited availability of productive land, it is important to safeguard this non-renewable resource for present and future usa.In sub Saharan Africa, overexploitation of natural vegetation and soil resources, without any external chemical, to meet the ever increasing need ior food, animal feed, fibre, and fuelwood has already resulted in accelerated land degradation and loss of soil productivity (Stoorvogel et al 1993 Tolba 1993) Despite many decades of research on the intensification of agriculture on rainfed uplands in the humid and subhumid tropics, efforts to develop alternative, sustainable and more productive food crop production systems have thus far had only limited success (Kang et al 1991)
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