Addressing soil health challenges and the fertilizer crisis in Africa

Added on 22 July 2024

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Addressing soil health challenges and the fertilizer crisis in Africa

Improving soil health is critical to sustainable agriculture, and for addressing climate change, tackling environmental challenges, and enhancing food security. Through projects by CIMMYT and partners, potential scalable solutions are under development, but additional work is still required.

″To effectively scale up soil health initiatives, we need to prioritize investments and establish a framework that maximizes returns,″ said Bram Govaerts, CIMMYT director general, during the 2024 Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health (AFSH) Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. ″It is crucial to use simple, quantifiable indicators for systematic assessments and decision-making, and to broaden these indicators to foster investment from public, private, and civil actors.″