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This book contains 17 chapters providing details on decision tools that use linear programming to determine recommendations specific to a farmer's context intended to maximize profit from fertilizer use in sub-saharan Africa. Chapter 1 and 2 discusses the principles and approach, and spatial analysis of fertilizer use optimization, respectively. Chapter 3 covers integrated soil fertility management in sub-Saharan Africa. Further, Chapters 4 to 16 explore optimizing fertilizer use within an integrated soil fertility management framework in countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Finally, Chapter 17 describes the process of enabling fertilizer use optimization in sub-Saharan Africa.

application rates, fertilizers, linear programming, optimization, profitability, profits, soil fertility --- Abyssinia, Bourkina Fasso, fertilisers, Nyasaland, subsaharan Africa, Tanganyika --- Africa South of Sahara, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia --- Africa, ACP Countries, Francophone Africa, Least Developed Countries, Developing Countries, West Africa, Africa South of Sahara, East Africa, Anglophone Africa, Commonwealth of Nations, SADC Countries, Community of Portuguese Language Countries, Portuguese Speaking Africa, Southern Africa