In a landmark move, the Africa Fertiliser Industry Development Association was launched during the Africa Food Systems Forum 2025. The event, hosted by AUDA-NEPAD, AGRA, and the African Union Commission, marked a coordinated effort to implement the Africa Fertiliser and Soil Health Action Plan, a 10-year roadmap aimed at reversing soil degradation and boosting productivity. ...

Mozambique’s Port of Nacala. Source: Oriental Consultants Global Malawi is positioning itself as a multimodal transhipment country linking landlocked neighbours such as Zambia with burgeoning ports in northern Mozambique. Apart from upgrading existing road infrastructure and expanding its logistical network through the support of the US foreign aid agency’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MMC), Malawi is ...

Western Cape State veterinarians have been lauded for the province’s efforts to increase agricultural exports. According to the Western Cape MEC for Agriculture, Dr Ivan Meyer, the province is responsible for 55% of South Africa’s primary agricultural exports, with nearly 50% being livestock or livestock products. The MEC was addressing 1 500 delegates from 48 ...

Workers carrying bags of fertilizer at a warehouse in Njombe, Tanzania. Global Affairs Canada(link is external) has provided $7.3 million in funding to the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) to enhance sustainable agricultural productivity and smallholder farmer livelihoods, particularly women and youth across Africa. The financing will aid the Mechanism in replicating its credit guarantee programs, ...

KENYA: around 8,000 tonnes of organic fertiliser to support sustainable agriculture©Miaron Billy/Shutterstock One of the challenges facing small-scale farmers in Kenya is access to finance and agricultural inputs. The new Fertiliser Financing for Sustainable Agriculture Project, implemented by Kenyan agritech Apollo Agriculture, will see 7,928 tonnes of organic fertiliser supplied to 106,000 smallholder farmers by ...

Yara Ghana Limited, as part of its effort to mark the closing ceremony of the Grow Ghana initiative, donated 1,107 bags of YaraMila Actyva fertilizers to 369 women farmers including people living with disability. Each recipient received three bags of fertilizers to support their efforts in increasing food sustainability and security in Ghana. Speaking at ...

What: Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health (AFSH) Summit 2023. When: 5th -7th November 2023 Where: Nairobi, Kenya (Kenyatta International Conference Centre)/ KICC, Media opportunities: The high-level opening session will include the following media opportunities: Opening statements by African Union Heads of State and Governments Speeches by the Chairperson of the AU and the Chairperson of ...

Togo teamed up with Morocco’s Phosphate Office (OCP) to carry out its agricultural development project, via mechanization and local fertilizer production. The two parties signed two agreements in this framework on May 31, on the sidelines of a top-class meeting on fertilizer security that Lomé recently hosted. The agreements respectively aim to bolster agricultural mechanization ...

The government will need about $2 billion to establish a fertilizer plant in Ghana to increase the volume of production and resolve the intermittent shortage of the commodity, which affects food production and security. Currently all inorganic fertilizers are imported with the Nitrogen Phosphorous and Potassium (NPK) taking about 50 per cent of the imports, ...

Gilbert Ekugbe The African Development Bank (AfDB) has stated that its Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) strategic plan 2022-2028 is committed to mobilising funds to support the availability and appropriate use of fertilizer on the continent. The move is apt especially at a time when Small Holder Farmers (SHFs) are grappling with high cost of ...