Purpose of the Summit—NEPAD, the African Union and IFDC are implementing the Summit to increase the awareness of the role that fertilizer can play in stimulating sustainable pro-poor productivity growth in African agriculture and to discuss approaches for rapidly increasing efficient fertilizer use by African smallholder farmers.

Goal of the Summit— to build a consensus around the key issues in increasing fertilizer use in Africa and agree on a strategy for developing an Africa Fertilizer Action Plan that will accelerate the access of millions of poor farmers to fertilizer and other complementary inputs to help them raise their farm production, achieve food security, and reduce poverty.