New Terra Preta - Biochar Book
William I.
Woods, Wenceslau G.
Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, Antoinette M.
G.
A.
WinklerPrins, Lilian
Rabellato (Editors)
Springer 2009, ISBN: 978-1-4020-9030-1
Amazonian soils are almost universally...
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New Terra Preta - Biochar Book
William I.
Woods, Wenceslau G.
Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, Antoinette M.
G.
A.
WinklerPrins, Lilian
Rabellato (Editors)
Springer 2009, ISBN: 978-1-4020-9030-1
Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely
forbidding.
However, it is now clear that complex societies with large,
sedentary populations were present for over a millennium before
European contact.
Associated with these are tracts of anomalously
fertile, dark soils termed terra preta or dark earths.
These
soils are presently an important agricultural resource within Amazonia
and provide a model for developing long-term future sustainability of
food production in tropical environments.
The late Dutch soil scientist
Wim Sombroek (1934-2003) was instrumental in bringing the significance
of these soils to the attention of the world over four decades ago.
Wim
saw not only the possibilities of improving the lives of small holders
throughout the world with si
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