Objective Past interventions and proposed technologies have often failed to alleviate problems of soil fertility and food production in sub-Saharan Africa as they are delivered as single component solutions that rarely address the complexity of the livelihoods of farmers. Further agricultural intensification is often addressed in isolation from the effects that it may have on the wider environment and on ecosystem services of importance at regional and global scales. A series of databases and an analytical modelling framework, AfricaNUANCES, that combines spatial and temporal dimensions of African smallholder farming systems will be developed. A primary aim is to synthesize knowledge and analyse tradeoffs of implementing various soil fertility technologies for smallholder farmers in mixed crop/livestock systems in East, West and Southern Africa. Emphasis will be on efficiency of targeting and use of nutrients and legume-based soil improving technologies, with outputs evaluated in terms of costs, benefits and compromises in productivity, economics and environmental services. Our approach is to aim for simplicity to allow wide access and use of the AfricaNUANCES framework, whilst encouraging deeper systems analysis around questions that require trade-offs between individual goals and those of society at large. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasessocial sciencessociologydemographyfertilitynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsagricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureagricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandry Programme(s) FP6-INCO - Specific measures in support of international cooperation: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) INCO-2002-A2.1 - Managing humid and semi-humid ecosystems Call for proposal FP6-2002-INCO-DEV-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITEIT EU contribution No data Address Costerweg 50 WAGENINGEN Netherlands See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (13) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all KENYATTA UNIVERSITY Kenya EU contribution No data Address NAIROBI See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data KAWANDA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Uganda EU contribution No data Address Bombo Road, 13 km KAMPALA See on map Total cost No data LAKE ZONE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE Tanzania EU contribution No data Address Ukiriguru Agricultural Research & Development Institute MWANZA See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE Zimbabwe EU contribution No data Address Mt PLEASANT HARARE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND SPECIALIST SERVICES-MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND COOPERATIVES Zambia EU contribution No data Address CHILANGA See on map Total cost No data INSTITUT D'ECONOMIE RURALE Mali EU contribution No data Address Rue Mohamed V Bamako BAMAKO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SOIL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, COUCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH Ghana EU contribution No data Address Academy Post Office, Kwadaso KUMASI See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address King's College ABERDEEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE Italy EU contribution No data Address Piazza San Marco 4 FIRENZE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Old College, South Bridge EDINBURGH See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CENTRE DE COOPÉRATION INTERNATIONALE EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT France EU contribution No data Address Avenue Agropolis TA 74/09 MONTPELLIER See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT France EU contribution No data Address 213 rue LaFayette PARIS See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ Cameroon EU contribution No data Address YAOUNDÉ See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data