Integrated Soil Fertility Management

Background GOAL The Goal of ISFM is to improve the livelihoods of people relying on agriculture in the impact zones in sub-Saharan Africa by developing and creating an enabling environment for disseminating sustainable, profitable, socially just, nutrient-dense, and resilient agricultural production systems based on Integrated Soil Fertility Management

Definition of ISFM ‘ The application of soil fertility management practices , and the knowledge to adapt these to local conditions , which optimize fertilizer and organic resource use efficiency and crop productivity. These practices necessarily include appropriate fertilizer and organic input management in combination with the utilization of improved germplas m ’ Background

Impact zones Background Impact zones - SSA

Background Impact zones – Latin America

Activities 1. Strategic research on ISFM for cereal-legume systems, focusing on maximizing the use efficiency of applied inputs. 2. Adaptive, participatory research on best ISFM practices for cereal-legume systems. 3. Development of a stakeholder-specific decision support framework for ISFM in cereal-legume systems. 4. Creating an enabling environment for uptake of ISFM practices, focusing on improved access to markets and better health and nutrition. 5. Development of functional impact pathways for dissemination of ISFM practices in cereal-legume systems Progress against outputs and outcomes ISFM for legume- cereal based systems in sub- Saharan Africa promoted Output 1

BCR = 3.3 8.1 -1.3 $ $ -1 Progress against outputs and outcomes Soybean yield response to inoculant

Progress against outputs and outcomes With manure and NPK Without inputs Productivity of climbing beans to benefit systems

Progress against outputs and outcomes Rotational benefits of climbing beans and soybean

Progress against outputs and outcomes Number of farmers reached with legumes – N2Africa – April 2011

Progress against outputs and outcomes Private-Public Partnership Kenya – PROMISADOR (South Africa) contracts for 4000 tonnes of smallholder soybean by 2012; partnership TSBF – PROMISADOR – SMART LOGISTICS - SEEDCO

Progress against outputs and outcomes Activities 1. Strategic research on ISFM for cassava and banana-based systems, focusing on maximizing the use efficiency of applied inputs. 2. Adaptive, participatory research on best ISFM practices for cassava and banana-based systems. 3. Development of a stakeholder-specific decision support framework for ISFM in cassava and banana-based systems. 4. Creating an enabling environment for uptake of ISFM practices, focusing on improved access to markets and better health and nutrition. 5. Development of functional impact pathways for dissemination of ISFM practices in cassava and banana-based systems. ISFM for cassava-, and banana-based systems in humid sub-Saharan Africa assembled Output 2

Progress against outputs and outcomes ISFM for cassava systems, Kiduma, West DRCongo

Progress against outputs and outcomes Activities 1. Strategic research on ISFM for maize-bean based Quesungual agroforestry systems, focusing on maximizing the use efficiency of applied inputs. 2. Adaptive, participatory research on best ISFM practices for improving eco-efficiency of agroforestry and livestock systems. ISFM for conservation agriculture systems in Central America assembled Output 3

ISFM and the CRPs – CRP 1.2

ISFM and the CRPs – CRP 1.2

ISFM and the CRPs – CRP 1.2

ISFM and the CRPs – CRP 5

Statistics and Challenges 100% N2Africa Project leader Dashiell, Kenton 100% M&E specialist De Wolf, Judith 25% Nutritionist Nyagayah, Martha 100% Agronomist Baijukya, Fred 75% Soil Scientist Vanlauwe, Bernard 50% 50% Agronomist African Network Coordinator Roing, Kristina Saidou, Koala 100% Soil scientist Pypers, Pieter 100% Forage Agronomist Maass, Brigitte 100% Microbiologist Lesueur, Didier 100% Microbiologist Jefwa, Joyce 25% SLM Program Leader Huising, Jeroen 100% Microbiology Engineer Hermann, Laetitia 100% 30% Market Economist Soil Scientist Birachi, Eliud Castro, Aracely

Statistics and Challenges

Statistics and Challenges 100% 6,045,194 Total Expenditures 1% 81,506 Non Research Cost 99% 6,243,443 Direct Expenditures 91% 5,731,878 Sub Total Restricted 2% 150,000 Water and Food CP 0% 2,174 Sub Sahara Africa CP 88% 5,579,704 Special projects Restricted 8% 511,566 Sub-total Core 0% 0 Restricted Core 8% 511,566 Unrestricted Core TSBF PROPORTION (%) AMOUNT (US$) SOURCE

The future...

The future... Output 1: Functional soil biodiversity with specific focus on enhancing nutrient use efficiency and other ecosystem services Output 2: Developing ISFM principles within crop-livestock and rice-based systems and conservation agriculture for maximum productivity, profitability, and equity Output 3: Guiding principles for maximizing water and nutrient use efficiency through locally adapted deployment of fertilizer , resilient legume germplasm , and biological inoculants Output 4: Input and output markets and better health and nutrition as drivers for the adoption of ISFM Output 5: Fostering dissemination of developed ISFM products and associated knowledge systems

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