Session 3: CAADP Partnership Platform

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Session 3 CAADP Partnership Platform

• Enhancing Fertiliser Availability, Accessibility
  and Affordability for African Farmers Policies,
  Financing and Technical Issues

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Objectives of the Session

• In-depth/Informed discussion of the key issues
  related to fertilizer sector management
• Identify follow-up actions for further
  deliberation and/or practical engagement
• Table key messages with respect to fertilizer
  sector management for the Ministers of
  Agriculture meeting

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4 Presentations

• Presentation 1 Dynamics of Fertilizer Supply and
  Use (Amit Roy, IFDC)
• Presentation 2 Stakeholder Responses to
  Fertilizer Policy in Malawi (Betty Chinyamunyamu
  - NASFAM)
• Presentation 3 Fertilizer Auction and Voucher
  Program for Rwanda (Ernest Ruzindaza, Rwanda)
• Presentation 4 Private Sector Participation in
  the Fertilizer Sector (Chris Muyunda, COMESA)

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Discussion Point 1 Options for Improved Supply
Side Efficiencies

• International Procurement
• Negotiation versus Tenders
• Local Production
• Bulk blending from imported and/or indigenous raw
  material versus importing specialized fertilizers
• Improving the efficiency of existing production
  facilities and enhancing intra-Africa trade
• Developing new manufacturing facilities
  (viability given current economic climate and
  effective demand)
• Public-private partnerships Building strategic
  alliances across the fertilizer supply chain
  system
• Policy support to enhance private sector
  participation
• Roles and responsibilities of government, private
  sector, and development partners in the
  fertilizer sector

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Discussion Point 2 Options to Improve Fertilizer
Use Efficiency

• Develop better fertilizer recommendations
• Introduce new technologies to improve efficiency
  and productivity
• Use subsidy as a mechanism to promote technology
  adoption

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Discussion Point 3 Basic Ingredients of a
Sustainable Subsidy Policy

• Guiding principle Support the farmer not the
  product
• Roles of private sector, government, farmers and
  NGOs/development partners
• Some Options
• Government importation and distribution
  (distribution of free fertilizers or targeting
  via input vouchers)
• Government importation with distribution via the
  private sector using fertilizer auctions and/or
  input vouchers