{"id":581,"date":"2016-04-11T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T09:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=581"},"modified":"2016-04-12T14:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T13:24:29","slug":"sorghum-solutions-for-food-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2016\/04\/11\/sorghum-solutions-for-food-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorghum solutions for food in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-582\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-582 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Sorghum-MosesBiruma-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Sorghum-MosesBiruma-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Sorghum-MosesBiruma-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Sorghum-MosesBiruma-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/Sorghum-MosesBiruma.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright BIRUMA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Food production in Africa is difficult due to poor soil fertility and limited farmer access to inorganic fertilizer. This issue is exacerbated by climate change. A potential solution is to improve sorghum farming because sorghum is tolerant of both drought and water logging. Agronomist <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-015-0336-8\" target=\"_blank\">Tonitto\u00a0and Ricker-Gilbert<\/a> reviewed sorghum management scenarios. They found inorganic fertilizer amendment increased yield by 47-98 %, while organic nutrient amendment increased yield by 43-87 %. Therefore, facilitating access to fertilizers and diversified rotations should increase grain yield in Africa, a recommendation in line with current Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) techniques promoted by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) .<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-015-0336-8'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food production in Africa is difficult due to poor soil fertility and limited farmer access to inorganic fertilizer. This issue is exacerbated by climate change. A potential solution is to improve sorghum farming because sorghum is tolerant of both drought and water logging. Agronomist Tonitto\u00a0and Ricker-Gilbert reviewed sorghum management scenarios. They found inorganic fertilizer amendment &#8230; <a title=\"Sorghum solutions for food in Africa\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2016\/04\/11\/sorghum-solutions-for-food-in-africa\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sorghum solutions for food in Africa\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fertilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}