Pedro A. Sanchez
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American soil scientist
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Pedro A. Sanchez's Degrees
- PhD Soil Science Cornell University
- Masters Soil Science Cornell University
- Bachelors Soil Science University of Puerto Rico
Why Is Pedro A. Sanchez Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Pedro Sanchez is the director of the Agriculture & Food Security Center, senior research scholar, and director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Sanchez was director general of the World Agroforestry Centre headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya from 1991-2001, and served as co-chair of the UN Millennium Project Hunger Task Force. He is also professor emeritus of soil science and forestry at North Carolina State University, and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Pedro A. Sanchez's Published Works
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Published Works
- Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics (1977) (1627)
- Soil Fertility and Hunger in Africa (2002) (1210)
- Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development (2009) (1117)
- Digital Soil Map of the World (2009) (821)
- Nitrogen release from the leaves of some tropical legumes as affected by their lignin and polyphenolic contents (1991) (739)
- Radically Rethinking Agriculture for the 21st Century (2010) (675)
- Limited potential of no-till agriculture for climate change mitigation (2014) (594)
- Low-Input Technology for Managing Oxisols and Ultisols in Tropical America (1981) (526)
- Science in agroforestry (1995) (513)
- Soil Fertility Replenishment in Africa: An Investment in Natural Resource Capital (2015) (445)
- Fertility capability soil classification: a tool to help assess soil quality in the tropics (2003) (325)
- Amazon Basin Soils: Management for Continuous Crop Production (1982) (301)
- Halving hunger: It can be done (2005) (299)
- Myths and Science about the Chemistry and Fertility of Soils in the Tropics (1992) (280)
- Decomposition and nutrient release patterns of the leaves of three tropical legumes (1990) (265)
- GlobalSoilMap: Toward a Fine-Resolution Global Grid of Soil Properties (2014) (253)
- Tripling crop yields in tropical Africa (2010) (232)
- The State of Soil Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Baselines, Trajectories, and Solutions (2015) (231)
- The fertility capability soil classification system: Interpretation, applicability and modification (1982) (229)
- Soils: A Contemporary Perspective (2007) (226)
- Improved fallows come of age in the tropics (1999) (220)
- Cutting World Hunger in Half (2005) (217)
- Impact of soil fauna on the properties of soils in the humid Tropics (1992) (215)
- Linking climate change research with food security and poverty reduction in the tropics (2000) (214)
- Soil fertility dynamics after clearing a tropical rainforest in Peru (1983) (211)
- Hunger in Africa: the link between unhealthy people and unhealthy soils (2005) (211)
- Soil fertility replenishment takes off in East and Southern Africa. (2001) (194)
- Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future (2012) (182)
- The African Green Revolution moves forward (2009) (181)
- Trees, soils, and food security (1997) (178)
- Monitoring the world's agriculture (2010) (165)
- Land use transformation in Africa: three determinants for balancing food security with natural resource utilization (1997) (154)
- Soil-plant interactions in agroforestry systems (1991) (135)
- Soils of the Tropics and the World Food Crisis (1975) (132)
- Agroforestry in acid soils of the humid tropics. (1991) (132)
- Myths and science of soils of the tropics: proceedings SSSA, Las Vegas, Nevada, 17 October 1989. (1992) (118)
- Effects of Lime, Silicate, and Phosphorus Applications to an Oxisol on Phosphorus Sorption and Ion Retention (1980) (114)
- Land clearing and development in the tropics (1986) (109)
- Low-Input Cropping for Acid Soils of the Humid Tropics (1987) (108)
- Phosphate Rock Dissolution and Availability in Cerrado Soils as Affected by Phosphorus Sorption Capacity (1982) (108)
- Management Considerations for Acid Soils with High Phosphorus Fixation Capacity (2015) (106)
- Effects of Heating on Some Changes in Soil Properties in Relation to an Ethiopian Land Management Practice 1 (1978) (103)
- Soil productivity and sustainability in agroforestry systems. (1987) (100)
- PUDDLING TROPICAL RICE SOILS: 2. EFFECTS OF WATER LOSSES (1973) (94)
- Managing soil quality: Challenges in modern agriculture (2004) (91)
- En route to plentiful food production in Africa (2015) (85)
- Land resources, soils and their management in the Amazon region: a state of knowledge report (1982) (82)
- Soil fertility replenishment in Africa: A concept note (1996) (81)
- Ecology. Soil fertility and hunger in Africa. (2002) (79)
- The African Millennium Villages (2007) (77)
- The African green revolution: results from the Millennium Villages Project. (2010) (75)
- Soil Fertility and Hunger (2002) (75)
- Alternatives to Slash and Burn Agriculture (1993) (72)
- Soil fertility capability classification. (1975) (71)
- Soil phosphorus movement and budget after 13 years of fertilized cultivation in the Amazon basin (1996) (56)
- An equation for liming acid mineral soils to compensate crop aluminium tolerance. (1980) (52)
- Replenishing Soil Fertility in Africa, Edited (52)
- The worldwide problem of slash-and-burn agriculture (1993) (45)
- Soil fertility research in response to the demand for sustainability (1994) (45)
- GlobalSoilMap.net – A New Digital Soil Map of the World (2010) (41)
- Agricultural Alternatives for the Amazon Basin (1985) (40)
- Delivering on the Promise of Agroforestry (1999) (39)
- Alternatives to slash and burn: a pragmatic approach for mitigating tropical deforestation. (1994) (38)
- Agricultural productivity must improve in sub-Saharan Africa (2021) (34)
- Properties of Some Soils of the Upper Amazon Basin of Peru (1974) (33)
- Soil fertility, small-farm intensification and the environment in Africa. (2001) (31)
- Phosphorus replenishment in western Kenya: from field experiments to an operational strategy (1997) (31)
- Predicted Impact of Climatic Warming on Soil Properties and Use 1 (1990) (30)
- Performance of Sulfur-Coated Urea Under Intermittently Flooded Rice Culture in Peru1 (1973) (24)
- How many people use agroforestry products (1997) (22)
- PUDDLING TROPICAL RICE SOILS: I. GROWTH AND NUTRITIONAL ASPECTS (1973) (20)
- Approaches to mitigate tropical deforestation by sustainable soil management practices. (1990) (20)
- Genetic Association of Properties of Soils of an Area in the Upper Amazon Basin of Peru1 (1978) (19)
- Effective monitoring of agriculture: a response. (2012) (19)
- A smarter way to combat hunger (2009) (18)
- Comparison of vacuum static quadrupolar metrics (2017) (18)
- Double Cropping in the Eastern United States (1976) (18)
- Plant Nutritional Problems in Marginal Soils of Developing Countries (2001) (17)
- Phosphate Rock and Superphosphate Combinations for Soybeans in a Cerrado Oxisol1 (1982) (14)
- Special issue: alternatives to slash-and-burn agriculture. Papers presented as a symposium in the XV World Congress of Soil Science, 11 July 1994, Acapulco, Mexico (1996) (14)
- Viewpoint: Time to Increase Production of Nutrient-rich Foods (2020) (14)
- Nitrogen in shifting cultivation systems of Latin America (1982) (12)
- Multiple Cropping: An Appraisal of Present Knowledge and Future Needs (1976) (11)
- Phosphate Rock Fertilization in Tilled and No‐Till Low‐Input Systems in the Humid Tropics (1988) (10)
- Reply to 'No-till agriculture and climate change mitigation' (2015) (9)
- Response—Nutrient Imbalances (2009) (9)
- Real time Markov chains: Wind states in anemometric data (2015) (8)
- Low soil nitrogen mineralization rates in a humid tropical pasture. (1990) (8)
- Seminar on Pasture Production in Acid Soils of the Tropics (1978, Cali, Colombia). Pasture production in acid soils of the tropics : Proceedings (1979) (8)
- Alternatives to slash-and-burn agriculture: symposium ID-6, 15th International Soil Science Congress. (1994) (8)
- Nutrient Imbalances: Pollution Remains Response (2009) (7)
- The effect of tropical deforestation on atmospheric CO2. (1986) (6)
- Benefits from agroforestry in Africa, with examples from Kenya and Zambia. (2002) (6)
- TREES, SOILS, AND FOOD SECURITY. DISCUSSION (1997) (6)
- Productive potential of an annual intercropping scheme in the Amazon (1984) (6)
- Multiple cropping : proceedings of a symposium (1976) (6)
- Nitrogen and phosphorus in African soils: what role for agroforestry? (1996) (5)
- Reducing Hunger in Tropical Africa while Coping with Climate Change (2003) (5)
- The Role of Chemistry in Addressing Hunger and Food Security (2011) (5)
- Chapter 4 – SOILS (1989) (5)
- A comparison of the soil of tropical Latin America and tropical Australia (1979) (5)
- Variability in Draft Data Observed During Tillage (2003) (4)
- A Legume-based, Pasture Production Strategy for Acid Infertile Soils of Tropical America (1982) (4)
- Multiple Cropping in the Western United States (1976) (4)
- Land clearing and development from forest vegetation for oil palm plantations. (1986) (4)
- Machinery Adaptations for Multiple Cropping (1976) (4)
- Devising Effective Strategies and Policies for CSA: Insights from a Panel of Global Policy Experts (2018) (4)
- 03 Critical levels of phosphorus for upland rice in a cerrado Oxisol. (1980) (3)
- Tropical Soils, Climate and Agriculture: an Ecological Divide? (2001) (3)
- Implications of new technologies for future food supply systems (2021) (3)
- Nutrient dynamics following rainforest clearing and cultivation (1984) (3)
- Soil Management in Rice Cultivation (2019) (2)
- Soils and Slash-and-Burn Agriculture (2019) (2)
- Reducing Hunger By Improving Soil Fertility: an African Success Story (2008) (2)
- Agroforestry Approaches or Rehabilitating Degraded Lands after Tropical Deforestation (2020) (2)
- Plant Nutrition in Relation to Soil Constraints in the Developing World (1982) (2)
- Report of work group shifting cultivation and traditional agriculture (1982) (2)
- Millennium Project Hunger Task Force. (2004) (1)
- Soil Fertility Principles (2019) (1)
- MANAGING SOILS FOR LONG-TERM PRODUCTIVITY. DISCUSSION (1997) (1)
- Information technologies for field-based high-throughput phenotyping (2012) (1)
- Implications of soil mineralogy in the soil Fertility Capability Classification (FCC) System. (1990) (1)
- Shifting Cultivation in Latin America (1974) (1)
- Radically rethinking agriculture for the 21st century. Perspective (2010) (1)
- Influence of the monossodium glutamate production residue (Amiferm) in ruminal parameters and intake of bovine fed with corn silage (2003) (0)
- Farming systems in a rational world. (2004) (0)
- Letters to the editor (2004) (0)
- Multifunctional Agriculture in the Tropics : Overcoming Hunger , Poverty and Environmental · Degradation (2018) (0)
- Feed intake, apparent total tract digestibility, and nitrogen balance in Boran steers fed with three grasses grown alone or intercropped with Lablab purpureus (2019) (0)
- Soils and Livestock-Based Tropical Systems (2019) (0)
- Soils of the Tropics (2019) (0)
- Keynote Address:Multifunctional Agriculture in the Tropics: Overcoming Hunger, Poverty and- Environmental Degradation (2019) (0)
- Soil Resources: Science-Based Sustainability (2011) (0)
- The Tropical Environment (2019) (0)
- The Natural Environment of the Tropics (2019) (0)
- The Human Environment of the Tropics (2019) (0)
- Caribbean and Tropical American Soil Science Conference (1974) (0)
- Functional Capability Classification (2019) (0)
- Phosphorus fertilization in low income systems in the humid tropics of Peru (1994) (0)
- Soils and Tropical Tree-Based Systems (2019) (0)
- Tropical Region Soils Management (2019) (0)
- Restoring Soil Fertility in Semi-Arid West Africa: Assessment of an Indigenous Technology (2006) (0)
- Science-Based Policy Issues to Enable Sustainability on the Ground (2011) (0)
- Putting Natural Resource Management on the Map: Using GIS as a Tool for Soil Conservation Planning in Two Small Andean Watersheds (2000) (0)
- Pedology, Physics, Chemistry and Biology (2019) (0)
- Calibration of a prototype for continuous measurements of photosynthetically active radiation in sorghum (2021) (0)
- aThe subhumid tropics: technology and management strategies for rainfed agriculture. (1980) (0)
- Book reviewSoil fertility decline in the tropics—with case studies on plantations, by Alfred E. Hartemink. ISRIC-CABI, Wallingford. Hardback, 360 pp. ISBN 0851996701. US$120. (2005) (0)
- TROPICAL PASTURE RESEARCH IN ACID, INFERTILE SOILS OF LATIN AMERICA: PRESENT STATUS ANO NEEDS FOR THE FUTURE (2014) (0)
- Graphene Nonlinear and Ultrafast Optoelectronics: Stepping up to the Surface (2013) (0)
- A study on fertilization of sugar cane lands. (1950) (0)
- Circular agriculture increases food production and can reduce N fertilizer use of commercial farms for tropical environments. (2023) (0)
- New Initiatives and Ideas in Spain (1986) (0)
- History of Soil Science in the Tropics (2019) (0)
- Combining superphosphate and rock phosphate applications for increasing the efficiency of P utilization by soybeans in oxisols of the Brazilian Cerrados. (1980) (0)
- Evaluation of a residue from monosodium glutamate production (Amniferm) as a non protein nitrogen source for bovines grazing Brachiaria brizantha (2003) (0)
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