IFDC Food Security in Africa Increasing Productivity with an Agri-Food Chains Approach By Amit Roy President & CEO International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) Presented at Innovagro’s 2 nd Annual International Seminar “Innovation for Family Farming and Food Security” May 21-22, 2012 Buenos Aires, Argentina

IFDC Presentation outline  Brief overview of African agriculture  Essential elements to increasing agricultural productivity in Africa  Example of a successful intervention  Conclusion

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Paved Roads per Million People (km/million capita)

IFDC Sub-Saharan Africa … Crop Yields low

IFDC Sub Saharan Africa South Asia Per Hectare, Fertilizer Use by Markets, 2008/09 (kg/ha) Sub-Saharan Africa.... Fertilizer use low 6

IFDC Sub-Saharan Africa.... Extencification… 7

IFDC Fertilizer Price Trends: Jan 2005 – April 2012

IFDC Increase in productivity Why?  Achieve food Security and import substitution  Develop competitive agricultural sector  Ensure environmental sustainability  5 essential points for success

IFDC Agro- Industry Inputs Agro-Industry Outputs Supply of Farm Inputs Farm Production Marketing and Processing of Farm Products Demand Pull 1. A Holistic Approach: Agri-Food Chain Linkages Farming

IFDC 2. Agro-Dealer Development Agro-dealers are farmers’ main contacts for inputs and advice Expanded agro-dealer networks increase input availability Key component of successful delivery system

IFDC Agro-Dealers in Ghana  Profiled and mapped over 4,000 dealers  Published a national directory of dealers  Linked trained dealers to credit guarantee scheme  Established demo plots with dealers and organized field days Last-mile-delivery a la Coca Cola

IFDC Vouchers as “Smart Subsidies”

IFDC 3. Enhance Soil productivity--ISFM ISFM—Combining organic and inorganic plant nutrients Doubles productivity and increases incomes 20%-50% Protects the environment and maintains (or even enhances) soil resources

IFDC 4. innovations

IFDC Prilled Urea Briquette Machine for USG USG Simple Solution: Urea Deep Placement

IFDC Urea Deep Placement (UDP) FDP Applicator Field Trials

IFDC 5. Access to Market Information

IFDC An Example of Success Cassava

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Cassava Revolution

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Long-term private sector investments  Long-term private sector investments for local market development (DADTCO, FrieslandCampina, Rumpstad)  Focus on PPPs, with critical role of public funding ( capitalism is good at creating wealth but terrible at distributing it, B. barber)  Attention to private sector risk-rewards  Essential to develop reliable relations between actors in value chains

IFDC Enabling environment Nigeria – Taraba State:  Focus in areas where private-sector is vibrant  Focus on states with long-term support to private sector investments  Results: DADTCO investment in cassava flour factory Fertilizer distribution a vibrant market with trained agro- dealers and distribution network State investment in bakery to increase use of cassava flour

IFDC Conclusions  Large-scale productivity jump in agriculture in Africa is possible  Concerted and long-term investments from private and public sectors  Enabling policy environment  Investment in infrastructures

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