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 far, 165...
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 recommendatio...
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 in th...
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, Rabobank and U...
Research by a consortium headed by Purdue University shows that fertilizer use is not consistently profitable for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The research was commissioned by Sustain Afric...
Emergency Import of Critical Agricultural Inputs The ongoing conflict in Sudan continues to contribute to a food crisis threatening the lives of over 22 million people. Farmers, especially smallholders, are ...
The next fertilizer crisis is inevitable. Whether it becomes a food crisis depends on what we invest in now. Join Us Today It has become apparent that global food security is only as stable as the system...
The next fertilizer crisis is inevitable. Whether it becomes a food crisis depends on what we invest in now. Join Us Today Geopolitical Risk Escalation and Global Market Disruptions The growing geopoliti...
The next fertilizer crisis is inevitable. Whether it becomes a food crisis depends on what we invest in now. Join Us Today The global fertilizer disruption triggered by the escalating U.S.-Israel-Iran conf...
Fertilizer bags being shipped out. Photo credit: Streamline The next fertilizer crisis is inevitable. Whether it becomes a food crisis depends on what we invest in now Join Us Today A Global Shock Reaches Af...
The Global Fertilizer Crisis Response Group Is Reinstated This Time, We Must Act Earlier and Smarter Today marks the reinstatement of the Global Fertilizer Crisis Response Group (GFCRG) at a moment when gl...
War in the Middle East: Implications for Africa’s 2026 Planting Seasons Second Issue: Call to Action In a bid to avert a looming fertilizer crisis, IFDC, Sustain Africa and AfricaFertilizer are pleased t...
Be Part of the Solution Contact Us via sustain@sustainafrica-initiative.org We, Sustain Africa, IFDC and AfricaFertilizer call for the following immediate priorities: Convene a Global Fertilizer Crisis Respo...
Advancing Mozambique’s National Fertilizer and Soil Health Policy Agenda Mozambique has initiated the national domestication of the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Action Plan (AFSH-AP), marking an impor...
Urea fertilizer loading onto the trucks in Port Sudan. [Photo: Sustain Africa] JOINT RELEASE Sustain Africa Supports Fertilizer Deliveries for Agricultural Recovery in Sudan Port Sudan, Sudan 16th December 2...
Malawi Charts a New Path for Fertilizer and Soil Health Roadmap When the sun rose over Lake Malawi shinning on Salima on 18 November 2025, it marked more than the start of another technical meeting. It signa...
Sustain Africa Championing AFSH-AP Implementation and Domestication Sustain Africa recently led key partners and stakeholders including Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the Ministry of Agric...
Building Resilience in Sudan: Sustain Sudan Project Launched “Our mission is simple but urgent: ensure fertilizer is available across Sudan and affordable for smallholder farmers,” said Ben Valk, Interna...
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 the main...
Sustain Africa’s country programme in Burkina Faso launched on the 7th of February 2024 with kick-off meetings in the capital Ouagadougou. The project will provide 20,000 tonnes of discounted fertilizer in...
Sustain Africa’s advisory programme in Nigeria was launched on December 1 2023 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Government of Nigeria and Sustain Africa. Sustain Africa...
Sustain Africa programmes in Zambia and Kenya launched in November. Read more on the Zambia launch, and programme, here and about the Kenya launch here.
Sustain Africa and the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) proudly inaugurated the Sustain Africa Initiative in Zambia during an event held on Friday, November 3rd, 2023 at the Mosi-oa-Tun...
Sustain Africa, in collaboration with the Presidential Economic Transformation Secretariat (PETS), the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Kenya, and the International Institute of Tropical Ag...
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 the country...
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 conclud...
USAID has granted Sustain Africa USD 5 million in funding as part of a USD 15 million package that was announced at the Africa Food Systems Forum in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The investment is part of supplem...
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 the Kenyan and...
While International fertilizer prices continue to return to pre-crisis levels, retail fertilizer prices in many countries show a different trend, increasing in many countries and falling only slowly in other...
Sustain Africa’s 2023 programme in Ghana was launched on May 19th with an event attended by the Honorable Dr. Brian Acheampong, Minister of Food and Agriculture, Ghana. Other attendees included various Mem...
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
Fertilizer prices have decreased but remain over 2.3 times the average 2020 price while rising government debt distress may put subsidy programmes in question.
Sustain Africa advises the Malawian Parliamentarian Committee on Defence and Security regarding security measures to safeguard the fertilizer that is part of the government’s subsidy programme.
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
Sustain Africa’s programme in Uganda, which rolled out in August 2022, has hit its target distribution to farmers of 20,000 MT of fertilizer
Sustain Africa’s programme in Mozambique, targeting almost 50,000 farmers with 9,500MT of rebated fertilizer, rolls out with a mulitstakeholder event
Sustain Africa supports the Malawi government in the supply of 52,000 MT of NPK fertilizer to farmers through the Malawi government’s Affordable Inputs Programme, ensuring affordability farmers.
Sustain Africa initiative announces its programme Mozambique to increase accessibility and affordability to farmers of up to 9,500 metric tonnes of fertilizer to 47,500 farmers.
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