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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 2nd Annual International Seminar “Innovation for Family Farming and Food Security”

May 21-22, 2012

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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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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IFDC Paved Roads per Million People (km/million capita)

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Sub-Saharan Africa … Crop Yields low

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Sub Saharan Africa South Asia

Per Hectare, Fertilizer Use by Markets, 2008/09 (kg/ha)

Sub-Saharan Africa .... Fertilizer use low

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Sub-Saharan Africa .... Extencification…

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IFDC Fertilizer Price Trends: Jan 2005 – April 2012

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Increase in productivity Why?  Achieve food Security and import substitution  Develop competitive agricultural sector  Ensure environmental sustainability

  5 essential points for success

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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

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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

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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

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Vouchers as “Smart Subsidies”

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•  ISFM—Combining organic and inorganic plant nutrients

• Doubles productivity and increases incomes 20%-50%

• Protects the environment and maintains (or even enhances) soil resources

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Prilled Urea

Briquette Machine for USG

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Simple Solution: Urea Deep Placement

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Urea Deep Placement (UDP)

farmers in Bangladesh are using UDP, accounting for 12% of paddy area

• Briquette manufacture creates village-level employment opportunities

• UDP being introduced into eight African countries

FDP Applicator Field Trials

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5. Access to Market Information

• Market information systems critical at

• Mobile phones now used as business tools to access data on commodity prices and agro-inputs

(65% of Africans have access to mobile coverage)

www.amitsa.org

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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

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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

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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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Thank You