The authors discuss low-input agricultural strategies known and practised by many subsistence
and smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa which are efficient and intensify food
production. Their proposed technologies are suitable options useable in response to concerns
about the environmental impact made by using chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Therefore
new agricultural technologies should be used in order to avoid land degradation but rather
improve soil through appropriate conservation practices. With the help of these new low-input
strategies the exploitation of land leading to massive destruction and as such to rural
poverty can be avoided. Field tests have shown that the low-input agricultural strategies are
economically affordable to poor farmers and easy to implement.
