Food%20Security%20in%20Africa%20Increasing%20Productivity%20with%20an%20Agri-Food%20Chains%20Approach

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Food Security in AfricaIncreasing Productivity
with an Agri-Food Chains Approach

• By
• Amit Roy
• President CEO
• International Fertilizer Development Center
  (IFDC)
• Presented at
• Innovagros 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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The Enormity of Africa
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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 .... Fertilizer use low
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Sub-Saharan Africa .... Extencification
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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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1. A Holistic Approach Agri-Food Chain
Agro-Industry
Farming
Agro-Industry Inputs
Outputs
Marketing and Processing of Farm Products
Supply of Farm Inputs
Farm Production
Demand Pull
Linkages
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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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Last-mile-delivery a la Coca Cola

• 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

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Vouchers as Smart Subsidies
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3. Enhance Soil productivity--ISFM

• ISFMCombining 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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4. innovations
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Simple Solution Urea Deep Placement
Prilled Urea
Briquette Machine for USG
USG
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Urea Deep Placement (UDP)

• Two million 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 all levels
  of the value chain
• 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-terminvestments from private
  and public sectors
• Enabling policy environment
• Investment in infrastructures

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Thank You