To feed our people, we must first feed our soil Olusegun Obasanjo | Africa Fertilizer Summit – Abuja, June 2006

Patrice ANNEQUIN IFDC, programme coordinator | CountrySTAT Consultative Meeting| Casablanca 12/2013

CountrySTAT & AfricaFertilizer.org partnership

Who we are & what we do

Partnership with CountrySTAT in SSA

The Fertilizer Technical Working Groups

Achievements, lessons learnt and way forward

AfricaFertilizer.org

Slow growth of fertilizer consumption in Africa 2004: 8 kg/ha/year 2011: 12 kg/ha/year (est.) 2015: 50 kg/ha/year ?

Africa Fertilizer Summit Abuja 2006

Fertilizer market in Africa at a glance Africa: @ 3% of world market SSA : @ 10% of Africa market 2013–2018 demand +3,1% p.a

IFA 2013

From aggregation and dissemination of existing information on fertilizers (2009-2011) to support to partners, programs and activities that increase availability and quality of such information (2012-2015)

Our key partner: CountrySTAT

Led by IFDC

Funded by AFAP, IFA and IFDC

Supported by FAO and AUC/NEPAD

From a web portal to a programme

• All African countries [SSA]

• All free content

• Portal developed in Ghana

• Managed by IFDC

www.AfricaFertilizer.org

Milestones • 2006 Africa Fertilizer Summit • 2009 web portal by IFDC • 2010 IFA Africa Forum Paris • 2011 2012-2015 programme • 2012 FAO CountrySTAT partnership • 2013 IFA 5 year Africa Strategy

Main content • Data [FAOSTAT + IFA + IFDC + CS] • Publications [1,500 +] • Market news [RSS, Facebook, Twitter] • Policies [2012, 35 countries] • Directories [2013, 2500 entries]

What are we monitoring ?

primary focus: FERTILIZER STATISTICS

• Production – Primary (mining + manuf.)

– Secondary (blending)

• Trade – Import

– Export

• Consumption – National + sub-national

– Fertilizer use by crop

secondary focus: MARKET INFORMATION

• Prices – National prices

– FOB prices

• Directories – Product catalogues

– Businesses (yellow pages)

• Policies – Regulations

– Subsidy programmes

Fertilizer statistics in [SS] Africa …

Current sources: • FAOSTAT > public

– [accuracy, depth]

• IFA > private – [coverage, privacy]

• (too) many others – [scattered, reliability]

Improving access to statistics on fertilizers: make CountrySTAT the [new] preferred official source of fertilizer data!

Why CountrySTAT ? 1. CountrySTAT objectives 2. Geographical coverage 3. Institutional framework

4. Fertilizer domain [weak] 5. National & sub nat’l focus 6. Access to data & people

CountrySTAT – AfricaFertilizer.org partnership

MOU between FAO HQ and AFO partners

In Africa, focus on SSA

About fertilizers

1. Technical assistance

2. Data sharing

3. Capacity building

CountrySTAT program

FAO ESS division [FAO STAT]

CountrySTAT Secretariat

Technical Working Group [TWG]

Fertilizer Technical Working sub Group

[FTWG]

FAO HQ Rome

Country level

MOU

T.A.

National Fertilizer Technical Working [sub] Groups

Objectives of the FTWG

Assist national TWG to

1 - Feed and maintain FERTILIZER DATA SERIES

• National core

• Sub-national core

• Thematic module

2 - Contribute to

• FAOSTAT questionnaires

• Methodologies

• Codes / nomenclatures

CountrySTAT

Secretariat

Technical Working Group

Fertilizer Technical Working sub Group (8-15 members)

Group leader IT / database

Statistical Services

Revenue Authorities

Ministry of Agriculture

Private Sector

AFO support to CountrySTAT FTWG

1. Organize Technical Trainings for FTWG – Advanced / basic

– For 10-15 members

2. Sponsor Fertilizer TWG meetings – For harmonization

and/or validation

– 1 or 2 meetings per year (1 to 2 days)

3. Provide onsite and remote assistance – Data acquisition, processing

and verification

– Networking with private sector and experts

4. Share and promote – Data published

– Best practices

EARLY RESULTS ARE ENCOURAGING !

A partnership that works in 13 countries

2012

2013

Year of establishment and initial training of Fertilizer Technical Working Groups

2014 ?

UEMOA

EAC

Initial meeting in April 2012

2 FTWG meetings since

Constant interaction between AFO/IFDC and CS/GSS

Private sector committed

Full and timely access to data

Show case – the Ghana FTWG

Our joint success !

• Import and export data cleaned and reconciled from 2009 to 2012

• Thematic folder created with info on policies and regulations, stakeholders, subsidies, price data.

• FAO questionnaire 2013 fully completed on time

Several weaknesses identified

Technical • Limited technical knowledge

on fertilizer products / data

• Nomenclatures and codifications

Management • Institutional framework

• Need a closer follow up with established FTWG

Technical and management issues

The way forward: assist and consolidate

Technical • Technical trainings and

materials (En / Fr / Po)

• Tables of correspondence and conversion

Management • MOU with FAO

• Plan to ensure better in country support

Lessons learnt: we can do better ! Main source: CUSTOMS

Raw data available in many countries [ASYCUDA]

Per product breakdown incl. NPK possible

A low hanging fruit in several priority countries

Fertilizer Import/Export Statistics

The way forward: assist and consolidate Secure access to raw

import / export data by FTWG / CS

Guidelines to “clean” statistics at national level

Hold “pre-validation workshops“ with FTWG

Objective : 2010-2012 (2013?) import / export statistics published in Q1 2014 per product and per nutrient

Lessons learnt: the main challenge ! Apparent Consumption

is NOT enough

Hard to access and to process, at best guesstimates

Main source: annual agricultural surveys [public]

Fertilizer Consumption Statistics

The way forward: focus on consumption Sponsor national assessments

in Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal => publish guidelines

Improve design and use of data collected by agricultural surveys

Get support from IFA dedicated Task Force, private sector

Objective : 2010-2012 [apparent] consumption data published and guidelines published in Q1 2014

Focus and approach

Fertilizers

National core stats

Support to [F]TWG

Key areas

Technical trainings

Capacity building

Data sharing

Best practices

CS/AFO partnership in a snapshot

2012 & 2013

12 countries

Learning & adjusting

Trade > consumption

2014 and beyond

FAO/AFO MOU

Expand (with RECs)

AFO to use FENIX

Other domains (seeds, pesticides) ?

@AfricFertilizer

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www.africafertilizer.org

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