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Climate smart soil management: a win-win response to climate change and food security challenges

Authors: Mnkeni, Pearson
Subjects: Food security , Population growth , Soil degration , Climate change , Global warming , Conservation agriculture , Organic materials
Language: English
Type: Inaugural lecture
Identifier: vital:11980 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011255 , Food security , Population growth , Soil degration , Climate change , Global warming , Conservation agriculture , Organic materials
Description: Sub-Saharan Africa faces a major food security challenge as a result of projected fast increases in population growth and continuing declining per capita food availability. This calls for accelerated increases in productivity to meet expected increases in food demand. However, the soils from which the extra production is to come from are highly degraded, especially in South Africa where a large proportion of the land is ranked as having high degradation potential. This is compounded by the increasing climate change challenge which will render more land unfavourable for production. The climate change is mainly caused by global warming believed to be a result of increasing greenhouse gas emissions. The link between soil carbon, food security, and climate change will be explained in this paper. It will be shown that the high degradation status of South African soils is related to their low organic carbon contents. Efforts to restore their productivity must include strategies to minimize further loss of organic matter and encouraging carbon sequestration. Some interventions investigated with the help of my students and collaborators are presented. They include use of farmer available organic materials that can be applied to soils to improve soil carbon sequestration and fertility status; use of cyanobacteria to improve soil carbon sequestration and soil biogeochemical performance; and the adoption of conservation agriculture.
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Correctional Administration, Victimology and Crime Prevention: CRM 122

Authors: Earl-Taylor, M , Matshaba, M , Daniel, N
Subjects: Criminology
Language: English
Type: Examination paper
Identifier: vital:18191 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011178
Description: Correctional Administration, Victimology and Crime Prevention: CRM 122,supplementary examination January/February 2010.
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Dedication of St Thomas's Church at Silos. January 1964

Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
Type: Still image
Identifier: vital:12187 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1012610
Description: (Left to Right) Fr Zweli Matoti, Fr Alfred Beresford, Fr Hannington Gcanga, Bishop Jmaes Schuster, Archdeacon Ernest Lean. Dedication of St Thomas's Church at Silos. January 1964
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Entrepreneurship Small Business Management: BEC 507

Authors: Shaw, G , Roberts-Lombard, M
Subjects: Entrepreneurship Small Business Management
Language: English
Type: Examination paper
Identifier: vital:17457 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010271
Description: Examination on Entrepreneurship Small Business Management: BEC 507 November 2010
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FINAL THESIS - DEOGRACIOUS.pdf

Authors: Phakama
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25034 , vital:63900
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Genetically modified (GM) maize cultivation by smallholders in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa :|beffects on target and non-target organisms and adoption challenges

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/4770 , vital:28511
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GMRD Issue 12

Authors: Govan Mbeki Research & Development Centre (GMRDC)
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: vital:11986 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1015162
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Graduation Ceremony May 2009

Authors: University of Fort Hare
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: vital:11985
Description: University of Fort Hare Graduation programme Friday, 8th & Saturday, 9th May 2009.
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Graduation Ceremony May 2015

Authors: University of Fort Hare
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: vital:11984 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1017828
Description: University of Fort Hare May 2015 Graduation Ceremony, Alice Campus.
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Grasping hidden histories and land struggles amidst a democratising South Africa

Authors: Wotshela, Luvuyo
Subjects: South Africa
Language: English
Type: Inaugural lecture
Identifier: vital:11983 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1013045 , South Africa
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