This multi-country project is being implemented through a system of on-farm trials designed to evaluate specialized P fertilizer products and formulations. The specific project outcomes of the are to: create scientific evidence of the efficiency of new specialized P fertilizer formulations, develop a framework for reducing adoption risks of fertilizer use by farmers, and facilitate completion of regulatory and efficacy processes. APNI will support this process through mobilization of internal and external specialist knowledge required to ensure the successful implementation of the planned trials, and the attainment of project outcomes.

Project target countries include:

Specific Objective 1: Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast
Specific Objectives 2 and 3: Tanzania
Specific Objective 4: Guinea Conakry, DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Gambia, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Togo, Mauritania, Angola, Sudan, Sierra Leone.

Results from Phase 1 :

• Present trial network includes 4,500 trials in 24 countries covering 23 crops.

• Supported protocol development for field trial establishment.

• Leading data management experts contracted, and procedures co-developed for data quality control.

• Digital survey tools developed to collect data on household and farm characteristics, socioeconomics, decision making, and fertilizer use across +1800 households in Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, and Cote d’Ivoire.

• Survey data cross-validated with focus group discussions and key informant interviews conducted in the same countries.

OCP-Africa
National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS)

Sub-Saharan Africa