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 supplemental funds deployed by the U.S. government through Feed the Future, a whole-of-government initiative to address food insecurity […]
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 supplemental funds deployed by the U.S. government through Feed the Future, a whole-of-government initiative to address food insecurity and fertilizer price spikes in Africa. The USD 5 million investment in Sustain Africa is focused on support for Sustain Africa’s learning agenda which aims to provide pragmatic, evidence-based recommendations to government and other stakeholders on mitigating the impact on food security of fertilizer price spikes. Sustain Africa aims to understand, through commissioned, empirical, research, the levers that are most instrumental in accounting for the differences in retail prices in specific countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and for the differences in the impact of fertilizer price spikes on national food security. Based on this understanding, recommendations on practical steps to increase resilience in fertilizer markets will be made. The recommendations will inform consultations with governments as they continue to develop their National Fertilizer and Soil Health Roadmaps through and beyond the African Union Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit in November. The investment also includes the expansion of data collection on fertilizer prices and market conditions in selected African countries by Sustain Africa Board member IFDC.
