Voortman, R.L.Sonneveld, B.G.J.S.Keyzer, M.A.2019-04-262000-01Voortman, R.L., B.G.J.S. Sonneveld, and M.A. Keyzer. “African Land Ecology: Opportunities and Constraints for Agricultural Development.” CID Working Paper Series 2000.37, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January 2000.http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:39469327Current agriculture in Sub-Sahara Africa is undeveloped and the Green Revolution has left the continent largely untouched. Poor performance is often related to a number of socio-economic factors. In this paper we argue that there are also some specifities of natural resources, namely local homogeneity and spatial diversity of the pre-dominant Basement Complex soils, that imply that simple fertilizer strategies may not produce the yield increases obtained elsewhere.en-USResearch Paper or Report2019-04-26