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Miombo matters

Miombo matters

Notes and queries about land system science, with a bias towards the southern African woodlands. This is the blog for Casey Ryan and the LANDteam research group at the University of Edinburgh

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The effect of charcoal production on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in the drylands of southern Mozambique

The effect of charcoal production on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in the drylands of southern Mozambique New paper just out, and free access for 50 days via this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1aCVj1L~GwKTkP Lisboa, S.N., Woollen, E., Grundy, I.M., Ryan, C.M., Smith, H.E., Zorrilla-Miras, P., Baumert, S., Ribeiro, N., Vollmer, F., Holland, M. & Sitoe, A. […]

10th December 2019 0

butter beans and maize being bought

Comparing soya production models in central Mozambique

This just out on the impact of commercial soya production in Gurué, Zambézia: Baumert, S., Fisher, J., Ryan, C., Woollen, E., Vollmer, F., Artur, L., Zorrilla-Miras, P. & Mahamane, M. (2019) Forgone opportunities of large-scale agricultural investment: A comparison of three models of soya production in Central Mozambique. World Development Perspectives, 16, 100145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2019.100145 “The […]

9th December 2019 0

the miombo on fire at night

The miombo: a very short introduction

Miombo is the vernacular (plural) name for Brachystegia boehmii and similar trees found across Southern Africa (Coates Palgrave et al. 2002). However the name miombo is widely used to describe the savanna woodlands of Southern Africa that are dominated by trees of the subfamily Detarioideae of the Leguminosae, mainly of the genera Brachystegia, Julbernardia and […]

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