“Faidherbia-Flux”: adapting crops to climate changes in a semi-arid agro-sylvo-pastoral open observatory (Senegal)

Abstract

This project confirmed that Faidherbia is a large fertility islet to improve crop yield. New aspects for research include: using drones to upscale yield and biomass from small plot to the whole stand, estimating LER without real sole crop controls, possibility to estimate yield and LER in other plots, with just one drone flight. Potential next steps could be to dis-entangle the “Faidherbia effect”: microclimate, livestock, soil fertility, SOM, soil humidity, hydraulic redistributions, P, pests, termites, and plot history