1. NUTMON: an overview
Gerdien Meijerink

2. NUTMON and TOA
NUTMON
TOA

3. Objectives of NUTMON (NUTrient MONitoring)
Through nutrient monitoring:
Increase awareness of soil fertility decline
Find INM technologies that secure production and sustainability
Find policy instruments to facilitate adoption

4. Context: Kenya, 1984: depletion is 24 kg N and 4 kg P per ha,yr
(Stoorvogel and Smaling, 1990)

5. Nutrient Monitoring Activities
NUTMON Projects
Pilot phase (methodology development)
Various applications:
Participatory technology development
Evaluation of spatial and temporal variability of soil fertility (management)
Evaluation of low external input technologies
Evaluation of current and potential land use practices
Assessment of Peri-urban agriculture
Regions:
SSA (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Mali)
Asia (Vietnam, China)

6. Approach: Diagnosis Particip. INM technology dev. INM policy scenarios
INM options
Facilitating policies
Farm/community level
District/national level

7. Diagnosis at community level
Farmers
Research/ext/NGO
Criteria/indicators
Workshops
Resource flow mapping
Matrix ranking
Indigenous INM
technology
Criteria/indicators
Resource inventory
Quantifying nut.balance
Economic performance
Literature review
INM options
Diagnosis workshop

8. Participatory technology development

9. Diagnosis at district and national level
Stakeholders
Research/extension/NGO
Criteria/indicators
Interview
Workshops
Criteria/indicators
Literature review
Identification policy
instruments
Modeling policy impact
Diagnosis workshop

10. Policy / INM scenarios INM-options and Facilitating policy instruments
Joint evaluation
Stakeholders assessment

11. Approach at farm level Quick scan through participatory flow mapping
Monitoring of a season/year (if required)
Nutrient balance and economic performance
Participatory technology development
Implementation and monitoring

12. Participatory resource flow mapping

13. Quantitative assessments

14. Some results: nutrient stocks

15. Some results: nutrient flows

16. Why TOA? Limitations of NUTMON: Added benefits of TOA
Analysis is at farmers’ field level
Analysis limited to current practices
Added benefits of TOA
NUTMON results can be upscaled to district level
Scenario’s involving NUTMON results with other trade-offs can be explored

17. Latest update on NUTMON
NUTMON now part of MonQI: Monitoring for Quality Improvement
MonQI:
Nutrient monitoring (NUTMON)
Labeling and certification (pesticide free production)
Assessment of livelihoods (Tsunami victims)
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