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PART 1. TECHNOLOGIES FOR SOIL FERTILITY MANAGEMENT.- Chapter 1. Animal manure and soil fertility management on smallholdings in South Africa.- Chapter 2. Integrated soil fertility management for soil fertility restoration in sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 3. Integrated Soil Fertility Management: A Basis for Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Based Cropping Systems of Southern Africa.- Chapter 4. Insights of microbial inoculants in complementing organic soil fertility management in African smallholder farming systems.- Chapter 5. Potential of Agroforestry Technologies and Mineral Fertilisers in Improving Soil Fertility and Crop Production in Semi-arid Areas of Africa.- Chapter 6. Integrated Soil Acidity Management for Sustainable Crop Production in South African Smallholder Farming Systems.- PART 2: WATER MANAGEMENT IN SMALLHOLDER FARMING SYSTEMS.- Chapter 7. Improving productivity of smallholder irrigation in Africa through adoption of best management practices and technologies.- Chapter 8. Being small does not make it easy: the management conundrum on smallholder canal schemes.- Chapter 9. Sustainable winery wastewater management for improving soil quality, environmental health and crop yields.- Chapter 10. Water harvesting technologies for sustainable crop production in African smallholder farming systems._ PART 3: CROP PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES.- Chapter 11. Advances in Sorghum Production in Smallholder Farming Systems of Africa.- Chapter 12. Knowledge and Innovation Approaches to Out-Scale Sorghum Adoption in Africa.- Chapter 13. Integration of cover crops into maize-based smallholder farmer systems of Southern Africa.- Part 4: CLIMATE SMART LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION SYSTEMS.- Chapter 14. Utilising Encroacher Bush in Animal Feeding.- Chapter 15. Opportunities for delivering sectoral climate-smart livestock interventions in southern Africa.- Chapter 16. The Benefits of Winter Cover Crops in Mixed Crop-Livestock Conservation Agriculture Systems of the Swartland Region, South Africa._ PART 5: URBAN AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICA.- Chapter 17. Urban Food Production Technologies, Innovations and Management Practices in Africa.- Chapter 18. Hydroponics in urban agriculture.
