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Global
Leaders Launch Effort to Turn Around Africa’s Failing Agriculture
New
Study Reports Three-Quarters of African Farmlands
Plagued by Severe Degradation
At a news
conference at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City on March
30, His Excellency President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, who is
also Chairman of the Implementing Committee of the African Union’s
New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), called on African
heads of state, ministers, donors, industry leaders, farmers’
organizations, and others to support the transformation of African
agriculture, beginning with a summit to address the soil health
crisis and adopt strategies to revitalize African agriculture.
The Africa
Fertilizer Summit will be held in Abuja, Nigeria, June 9-13, 2006.
His
announcement coincided with a report that shows that 75% of the
farmland in sub-Saharan Africa is plagued by severe degradation,
losing basic soil nutrients needed to grow the crops that feed
Africa. IFDC will publish the report, which examines the decline in
African soil health from 1980 to 2004, before the Summit....Read
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Summary
February 8-10, 2006: Second AFS
Technical Committee Meeting, Abuja, Nigeria.
February 2006:
Arab Fertilizer Association 12th Annual International
Fertilizer Conference in Cairo, Egypt.
http://www.afa.com.eg/newconf.asp
January
30-February 2: FAO Council of Ministers Meeting, Bamako,
Mali.
NEPAD is planning to brief
representatives from Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and
Ministers of Agriculture on the Africa Fertilizer Summit during the
AU session of the FAO Regional Conference in Mali in February 2006.
November 14, 2005: Videotaped
address by President Olusegun Obasanjo on the Africa Fertilizer
Summit to the Executive Council Meeting of the International
Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) held in Seville, Spain,
November 14-17, 2005. President Olusegun Obasanjo that Nigeria is
to host an Africa fertiliser Summit from 9-13 June 2006.
http://www.nigeriafirst.org/article_5064.shtml
“‘There is
Money in the Soil’ and Togolese Farmers Want It.”
http://www.ifdc.org/PDF_Files/December2005EnglishNewsletter.pdf
“Assessment of
the Inputs Sector Conducted in Mozambique.”
http://www.ifdc.org/PDF_Files/December2005EnglishNewsletter.pdf
“Assessment of
Agricultural Input Markets Conducted in Kenya.”
:
http://www.ifdc.org/PDF_Files/December2005EnglishNewsletter.pdf
“Soil and
Nutrient Dynamics Program Provides Technical Support to Near East
and North Africa Project.”
http://www.ifdc.org/PDF_Files/December2005EnglishNewsletter.pdf
“‘Hope for West
Africa’s Agri-Input Market’ Proclaimed in Video.”
http://www.ifdc.org/PDF_Files/December2005EnglishNewsletter.pdf
“Gender
Training Conducted as Part of the MISTOWA Project”
http://www.ifdc.org/PDF_Files/December2005EnglishNewsletter.pdf
“CASE Training
Program Conducted in Mali”
http://www.ifdc.org/PDF_Files/December2005EnglishNewsletter.pdf
A Strategic
Framework for African Agricultural Input Supply System Development
http://www.ifdc.org/New_Design/Publications/Technical_Bulletins/index.html
An Action
Plan for Developing Agricultural Input Markets in Tanzania
http://www.ifdc.org/New_Design/Publications/Paper_Series/index.html
An Action
Plan for Developing Agricultural Input Markets in Ghana
http://www.ifdc.org/New_Design/Publications/Paper_Series/index.html
Agricultural
Input Markets in Nigeria: An Assessment and a Strategy for
Development
http://www.ifdc.org/New_Design/Publications/Paper_Series/index.html
An Action
Plan for Developing Sustainable Agricultural Input Supply Systems in
Malawi
http://www.ifdc.org/New_Design/Publications/Paper_Series/index.html
An Action
Plan for Developing Agricultural Input Markets in Uganda
http://www.ifdc.org/New_Design/Publications/Paper_Series/index.html
Input
Subsidies and Agricultural Development
http://www.ifdc.org/New_Design/Publications/Paper_Series/index.html
“Fertilizer in
Sub-Saharan Africa: Breaking the Vicious Circle of High Prices and
Low Demand”
http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=7833&ftype=.pdf
“Fertilizer
Impacts on Soils and Crops of Sub-Saharan Africa”
http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=7572&ftype=.pdf
“Macrotrends
and Determinants of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa”
http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=4833&ftype=.pdf
“Farm-Level
Incentives for Fertilizer Use in Rwanda’s Kigali Rural Province: A
Financial Analysis”
http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=14622&ftype=.pdf
“Evaluating
Measures to Improve Agricultural Input Use”
http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=3972&ftype=.pdf
“Determinants
of Fertilizer Adoption by African Farmers: Policy Analysis
Framework, Illustrative Evidence, and Implications”
http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=1381&ftype=.pdf
“World Agriculture and Fertilizer Demand, Global Fertilizer Supply
and Trade, 2005-2006”
http://www.fertilizer.org/ifa/news/2005_23.asp
March 1-5, 2004: Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) Twenty-Third Regional Conference for Africa,
Johannesburg, South Africa, Fertilizer Development in Support of the
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/008/J1662e.htm
“Fertilizer
micro-dosing system helps boost crop production in the Sahel”
http://www.futureharvest.org/growth/coke.bkgnd.shtml
“Adoption of 'micro-dosing' soil fertility restoration technologies
through the introduction of the warrantage credit facility in the
Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa”
http://www.icrisat.org/gt-aes/ResearchBreifs3.htm
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