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Marc Corbeels
Affiliation : International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology · International Institute of Tropical Agriculture · International Institute of Tropical Agriculture · International Institute of Tropical Agriculture · International Institute of Tropical Agriculture · International Institute of Tropical Agriculture · International Institute of Tropical Agriculture · International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
- 65Publications (affiliation in Kenya)
- 374Total publications
- 13918Citations
- 58h-index
Research profile
Marc Corbeels has 65 indexed publications (1998–2026). Their work appears mainly in “Field Crops Research”, “Agricultural Systems” and “Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems”. Their most cited article, “Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics’ view” (2009), has been cited 1500 times. 14 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in France, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia.
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- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Agricultural Science and Fertilization
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
Publications (65)
- Beyond Climate Change: The Role of Integrated Soil Fertility Management for Sustaining Future Maize Yield in Sub‐Saharan Africa
- Fertilizer and soil health for sustained crop production in sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and conceptual framework
- Farm resilience to climatic risk. A review
- Intra-seasonal rainfall patterns and extremes drive maize productivity and nitrogen use in sub-humid Zimbabwe
- Surface albedo and thermal radiation dynamics under conservation and conventional agriculture in subhumid Zimbabwe
- Yield stability of four staple crops of sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of long-term trials
- Drivers of soil organic carbon stocks at village scale in a sub-humid region of Zimbabwe
- Modelling the climate change adaptation potential of no-tillage maize systems in southern Africa
- The potential to increase maize yields and mitigate climate change by adopting integrated soil fertility management across different regions in Kenya — A simulation study
- Evaluating DayCent and STICS in simulating the long-term impact of contrasting organic resource amendments on soil organic carbon and maize yields in sub-Saharan Africa
- Mulch application as the overarching factor explaining increase in soil organic carbon stocks under conservation agriculture in two 8-year-old experiments in Zimbabwe
- Modeling integrated soil fertility management for maize production in Kenya using a Bayesian calibration of the DayCent model
- Multivariate regional deep learning prediction of soil properties from near-infrared, mid-infrared and their combined spectra
- Shifting focus from external to in situ organic resources – The redesign of four tropical long-term experiments
- A global meta-analysis of soil organic carbon in the Anthropocene
- The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa
- Managing soil organic carbon in tropical agroecosystems: evidence from four long-term experiments in Kenya
- Shifting cultivation in decline: An analysis of soil fertility and weed pressure in intensified cropping systems in Eastern Amazon
- Do intercropping and mineral nitrogen fertilizer affect weed community structures in low-input maize-based cropping systems?
- Scientific agenda for climate risk and impact assessment of West African cropping systems
- Reinforcement learning for crop management support: Review, prospects and challenges
- Long-term tillage, residue management and crop rotation impacts on N2O and CH4 emissions from two contrasting soils in sub-humid Zimbabwe
- Increased mineral fertilizer use on maize can improve both household food security and regional food production in East Africa
- A well‐established fact: Rapid mineralization of organic inputs is an important factor for soil carbon sequestration
- Cassava root yield variability in shifting cultivation systems in the eastern Amazon region of Brazil
- A global overview of studies about land management, land‐use change, and climate change effects on soil organic carbon
- Maize-cowpea intercropping as an ecological intensification option for low input systems in sub-humid Zimbabwe: Productivity, biological N2-fixation and grain mineral content
- Sustaining maize yields and soil carbon following land clearing in the forest–savannah transition zone of West Africa: Results from a 20-year experiment
- Exploring the agricultural landscape diversity-food security nexus: an analysis in two contrasted parklands of Central Senegal
- Landholders' perceptions on legal reserves and agricultural intensification: Diversity and implications for forest conservation in the eastern Brazilian Amazon
- Modelling climate change impacts on maize yields under low nitrogen input conditions in sub‐Saharan Africa
- Limits of conservation agriculture to overcome low crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa
- Productivity and biological N2-fixation in cereal-cowpea intercropping systems in sub-Saharan Africa. A review
- Understanding Landscape Multifunctionality in a Post-forest Frontier: Supply and Demand of Ecosystem Services in Eastern Amazonia
- Biomass flows in an agro-pastoral village in West-Africa: Who benefits from crop residue mulching?
- Maize relay intercropping with fodder crops for small-scale farmers in central Brazil
- Participatory multicriteria assessment of maize cropping systems in the context of family farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado
- DOES SIZE MATTER? A CRITICAL REVIEW OF META-ANALYSIS IN AGRONOMY
- Carbon sequestration potential through conservation agriculture in Africa has been largely overestimated
- Effectiveness of conservation agriculture in increasing crop productivity in low-input rainfed rice cropping systems under humid subtropical climate
- The 4 per 1000 goal and soil carbon storage under agroforestry and conservation agriculture systems in sub-Saharan Africa
- The 4 per 1000 goal and soil carbon storage under agroforestry and conservation agriculture systems in sub-Saharan Africa
- Can we use crop modelling for identifying climate change adaptation options?
- Impact of conservation agriculture on the agronomic and environmental performances of maize cropping under contrasting climatic conditions of the Brazilian Cerrado
- Agro-ecological functions of crop residues under conservation agriculture. A review
- Is mulching an efficient way to control weeds? Effects of type and amount of crop residue in rainfed rice based cropping systems in Madagascar
- Thinking beyond agronomic yield gap: Smallholder farm efficiency under contrasted livelihood strategies in Malawi
- Performance and sensitivity of the DSSAT crop growth model in simulating maize yield under conservation agriculture
- Modelling cereal crops to assess future climate risk for family food self-sufficiency in southern Mali
- Living within their means: Reallocation of farm resources can help smallholder farmers improve crop yields and soil fertility
- Diversity in crop residue management across an intensification gradient in southern Africa: System dynamics and crop productivity
- Delineating the drivers of waning wildlife habitat: The predominance of cotton farming on the fringe of protected areas in the Mid-Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe
- Communicating complexity: Integrated assessment of trade-offs concerning soil fertility management within African farming systems to support innovation and development
- Managing soil fertility diversity to enhance resource use efficiencies in smallholder farming systems: a case from Murewa District, Zimbabwe
- Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics’ view
- Nitrogen and phosphorus capture and recovery efficiencies, and crop responses to a range of soil fertility management strategies in sub-Saharan Africa
- FIELD—A summary simulation model of the soil–crop system to analyse long-term resource interactions and use efficiencies at farm scale
- Cotton expansion and biodiversity loss in African savannahs, opportunities and challenges for conservation agriculture: a review paper based on two case studies
- Yield gaps, nutrient use efficiencies and response to fertilisers by maize across heterogeneous smallholder farms of western Kenya
- Aggregating field-scale knowledge into farm-scale models of African smallholder systems: Summary functions to simulate crop production using APSIM
- Nitrogen cycling associated with the decomposition of sunflower stalks and wheat straw in a Vertisol
- Fate of fertiliser N applied to winter wheat growing on a Vertisol in a Mediterranean environment
- Soil mineral nitrogen dynamics under bare fallow and wheat in vertisols of semi-arid Mediterranean Morocco
- Analysis of water use by wheat grown on a cracking clay soil in a semi-arid Mediterranean environment: weather and nitrogen effects
- Residual effect of nitrogen fertilisation in a wheat–sunflower cropping sequence on a Vertisol under semi-arid Mediterranean conditions
Publication venues
- Field Crops Research × 11
- Agricultural Systems × 6
- Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems × 4
- European Journal of Agronomy × 4
- Global Change Biology × 3
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development × 3
Publications per year
- 20262
- 20258
- 20244
- 20236
- 20225
- 20215
- 20207
- 20194
- 20183
- 20173
Collaborations
Partner institutions : Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement · International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center · Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz Y Trigo · University of Zimbabwe · Agro-écologie et intensification durable des cultures annuelles
Co-authors’ countries : France · Mexico · Zimbabwe · Ethiopia
Co-authors
- Bernard Vanlauwe
- Gatien N. Falconnier
- Christian Thierfelder
- Léonard Rusinamhodzi
- Régis Chikowo
- Monicah Wanjiku Mucheru-Muna
- Daniel Njiru Mugendi
- Samuel Mathu Ndungu
- Wycliffe Waswa
- Anthony Michael Whitbread
- Rebecca Yegon
- Pablo Adrián Tittonell
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