To feed our people, we must first feed our soilOlusegun Obasanjo | Africa Fertilizer Summit – Abuja, June 2006

Patrice ANNEQUIN | AfricaFertilizer.org programme coordinatorIFDC Ghana | email pannequin@ifdc.org | mobile +233 244 067 658

Dodowa, July 23-24 2013

CountrySTAT & AfricaFertilizer.org partnership in Ghana

AfricaFertilizer.org in brief

2012 achievements

2013 key activities

AfricaFertilizer.org

Fertilizer consumption 2006 - 2015

8 kg to 50 kg/ha/yearAfrica Fertilizer Summit

Abuja 2006

Fertilizer demand2013 - 2018

3,1% growth p.a.IFA Annual Conference

Chicago 2013

• All African countries [SSA]

• All free content

• Online portal since 2009

• Managed by IFDC

www.AfricaFertilizer.org

AFO objectiveSupport partners, programs, and activities that increase availability and quality of information on fertilizers in Africa

AFO partners

Fertilizer statistics

Production

Production capacities

Trade [import/export]

Consumption

Fertilizer use per crop

At national & state level

Per product & per nutrient

What AFO partners monitor …

Fertilizer market intelligence

International prices

CIF & retail prices

Fertilizer policies and regulations

Subsidy programs

Business directories

Product directories

Publications

Market news

6 top countries – 57% of SSA market

CONSUMPTION x 1000 t/y Rank

Ethiopia 256 4

Kenya 178 5

Nigeria 153 6

Ghana 69 15

Tanzania 67 16

Mozambique 36 20

AFO Top 6 758 17%

AFO 17 1,046 23%

SSA [-South Africa] 1,333 30%

FSSA [South Africa] 716 16%

AFA [North Africa] 2,310 51%

Africa 4,487 100%

2007-2010 average nutient consumption, derived from FAOSTATTop 3: #1 Egypt #2 South Africa #3 Morocco

AFO Top 6

AFO 17

FSSA

AFA

SAFA

Monitoring fertilizer prices and policies

PRICES with IFDC• Monthly retail prices• 20 countries• subsidized / open market• link to 20,000 agro dealers • FOB : FMB from June 2013• C&F : FTWG / Task Force ?

2010 / 7th

report2011 / 8th report

Responding countries to NEPAD / AFS questionnaire

2010 & 2011New in 2012

POLICIES with NEPAD• AFS monitoring• 8 surveys since 2006• REC + country levels• low response % / quality • involving FTWG • could become an AFO job !

• review end of 2013 ?

Fertilizer stats on CountrySTAT Ghana

upper mid lower time series data

about team team

national core fertilizer import 1997 to 2010 tons per product

national core production production 2000 to 2012 tons per crop

national coreland and irrigation

land use 2005 to 2011 ha per category

national core production area harvested 2000 to 2011 ha per crop

national core production area sown 2000 to 2011 ha per product

national core production industrial crop 2000 to 2012 tons per crop

sub national production area harvested 2003 to 2008 ha per product per region

sub national production production 2000 to 2011 tons per crop per region

1. Fertilizer Technical Working Groups active in 17 CountrySTAT

2. 2011 trade statistics validated in Sept 2013 from 11 countries

3. FUBC surveys in Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania

4. Strategy to collect Consumption stats in place [IFA task force]

5. Africa Fertilizer Statistics Working Group installed and tested [Sept]

1. Online Africa Fertilizer Business Directory with 2,500+ records

2. Mapping production and blending units in all SSA countries

3. Int’l / FOB and retail prices available from 20 SSA countries

4. Web-based fertilizer catalogues from 15 SSA countries

5. Online policy module with at least 20 SSA countries

2013 Programme – 10 key deliverablesST

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Trade data

2010, 2011 and 2012 import / export

Product and nutrient tables

Consumption data

Consumption per region / district

Fertilizer Use By Crop (FUBC)

Prices

Retail prices since 2010

Prices under MOFA subsidy programmes

Business directories

Product catalogues

Special focus on …

@AfricFertilizer

africafertilizer.org

www.africafertilizer.org