Pasture improvement in Malawi: The introduction of legumes into various soil‐climate‐management ecosystems

Southern African pasture and forage science entering the 21st century: past to present

“…From here, it became evident that attention should be given to evaluating currently acceptable measurement techniques that would improve the understanding of pasture growth responses to various management inputs and changing environmental conditions. Furthermore, research into methods to improve the production and quality Table 1: Key research priorities of the 20th century as published in the various conference proceedings and journals of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa Selected 20th century research priorities Reference Plant community classification Grunow (1966), Gibbs Russell and Smook (1980) Pasture utilisation Booysen (1966), Booysen (1969, Rethman et al (1977), Bransby and Tainton (1979), Dannhauser (1988), Gammon and Tiddy (1990), Mentis (1991), Snyman (1994), van Heerden andDurand (1994) Legume species evaluation and production Davies (1968), I'Ons (1968, West (1968), Savory (1972), Wasserman (1974), Clatworthy (1975), I'Ons (1977, van Heerden and Tainton (1987), Le , , Muir (1993) Water use and efficiency of irrigated pasture and forage crops Roberts andScott (1968), I'Ons (1968), West (1968), Scott (1975), Steynberg et al (1993), Snyman (1994), Theron and van Rensburg (1998) Forage quality Theron and Booysen (1966), Roberts (1967), I'Ons (1968, West (1968), Grunow et al (1977), Miles et al (1995) Drought-tolerant fodder crops De Kock (1967), Donaldson (1990),…”