• Assessing drivers of soil properties and classification in the West Usambara mountains, Tanzania 

  Massawe, B. H. J.; Winowiecki, L.; Meliyo, J. L.; Mbogoni, J. D. J.; Msanya, B. M.; Kimaro, D.; Deckersf, J.; Gulinck, H.; Lyamchai, C.; Sayula, G.; Msokah, E.; Vagen, T.; Brush, G.; Jelinskii, N. A. (Elsevier, 2017-10-16)

  Improved soil information in tropical montane regions is critical for conservation, sustainable agricultural management, and land use planning, but is often challenged by topographic and land-use heterogeneity. The West ...
• Involving small holder farmers in the agricultural land use planning process using Analytic Hierarchy Process in rice farming systems of Kilombero Valley, Tanzania 

  Massawe, B. H. J.; Kaaya, A. K.; Slater, B. (academic Journals, 2019-02-14)

  Despite the truth that the agricultural land use planning exercises have so far covered small and fragmented part of the African continent, the involvement of farmers who are among the direct beneficiaries of the outputs ...
• Variability of soil organic carbon with landforms and land use in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania 

  Meliyo, J. L.; Msanya, B. M.; Kimaro, D. N.; Massawe, B. H. J.; Hieronimo, P.; Mulungu, L. S.; Deckers, J.; Gulinck, H. (Journal of Soil Science and Environmental Management, 2016-09)

  This study was carried out to assist in the formulation of conservation technologies for landscape sustained productivity in the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. Conventional soil survey methods were used to develop a base ...
• Mapping numerically classified soil taxa in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania using machine learning 

  Massawe, B. H. J.; Subburayalu, S. K.; Kaaya, A. K.; Winowiecki, L.; Slater, B. K. (Elsevier, 2016-11-24)

  Inadequacy of spatial soil information is one of the limiting factors to making evidence-based decisions to improve food security and land management in the developing countries. Various digital soilmapping (DSM) ...
• Landscape-scale variability of soil health indicators: effects of cultivation on soil organic carbon in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania 

  Winowiecki, L.; Va°gen, T.; Massawe, B.; Jelinski, N. A.; Lyamchai, C.; Sayula, G.; Msoka, E. (Springer, 2015-11-02)

  Land-use change continues at an alarming rate in sub-Saharan Africa adversely affecting ecosystem services provided by soil. These impacts are greatly understudied, especially in biodiversity rich mountains in East ...

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