Category: Madagascar

Sustain Africa’s country programmes in Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia have completed, with programmes in Burkina Faso and Ghana completing at the end of August 2024. In total so [...]

While Sustain Africa was initiated as a crisis response mechanism to mitigate the impact of a global fertilizer price spike, the Sustain Africa Learning Agenda aimed at surfacing evidence-based recommendations [...]

A study on derisking fertilizer finance, conducted by Dalberg found the following issues, and makes recommendations to address them. Read the full report here and the Executive Summary below listing [...]

A study by Dalberg evaluated Sustain Africa’s relevance, impact logic, partnerships and governance, and efficiency and also made recommendations on how to achieve even greater impact if a price spike [...]

Most of Sustain Africa’s active programmes complete at the end of August 2024, at which point Sustain Africa, supported by its current board member organisations AFAP, AGRA, BMGF, IFA, IFDC, [...]

About 80% of people in Madagascar depend on agriculture. Many farmers’ livelihoods were disrupted by a severe 2022 cyclone season, which followed two years of extreme drought. Fertilizer use in [...]

As International fertilizer prices continue to drop, Sustain Africa’s original remit of ensuring availability and affordability of fertilizer has expired. Sustain Africa’s country programmes will conclude in April / May. [...]

In 2023-2024, Sustain Africa aims to reach 530.000 farmers with 88.000 MT of fertilizer in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Uganda and Zambia. In addition, Sustain Africa is providing advisory services to [...]

Sustain Africa programmes are on track to reach 1.5 million farmers in five countries. Planning for up to 14 countries in 2023 is underway

Planting using fertilizer coordinated through the Sustain Africa programme kicked off in Madagascar with a field day to demonstrate correct use of the fertilizer for different crops including rice