{"id":13056,"date":"2026-06-20T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/iita-gets-us7m-approval-for-commercial-products-compro-project\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:16","slug":"iita-gets-us7m-approval-for-commercial-products-compro-project","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/iita-gets-us7m-approval-for-commercial-products-compro-project\/","title":{"rendered":"IITA gets US$7m approval for commercial products (COMPRO) project"},"content":{"rendered":"\"image\"<\/a>The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has received approval of about US$7m from the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation for the implementation of the second phase of the Commercial Products (COMPRO-II) project, says IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga today.\n\nTagged as \u2018Institutionalization of quality assurance mechanism and dissemination of top quality commercial products to increase crop yields and improve food security of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa,\u2019 the COMPRO-II project aims to institutionalize quality assurance mechanisms and facilitate the rapid dissemination of top quality commercial products to increase yields and improve the food security of smallholder farmers in the region.\n\n\u201cThe plan is to raise awareness among over two million smallholder farmers on effective and profitable commercial products by 2016 through public-private partnership,\u201d Sanginga explains.\n\nOf these households, 420,000 will have tested at least one effective commercial product and at least 50 percent of these will have adopted the technology and achieve a 15-30 percent yield increase with substantial impacts on food security and income.\n\n\u201cThe key expected outcome of the project is the institutionalization of screening and approval of commercial products,\u201d says Prem Warrior, Senior Program Officer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.\n\nIn the last decade, sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed economic growth amid population increases and rising dem and for food. Consequently, investments in soil fertility have become indispensable to increase agricultural productivity, and access to agricultural inputs is required to achieve this goal.\n\nBut more than having access to inputs, quality assurance of agricultural inputs is of utmost importance to protect farmers, retailers, wholesalers, and importers, and to minimize health and environmental hazards.\n\nFor instance, new biofertilizers, biopesticides, and chemical agro-inputs have been commercialized, but these products are often insufficiently evaluated for quality and efficacy due to weak national and regional regulatory systems, says Bernard Vanlauwe, IITA\u2019s Director for Natural Resource Management and Central Africa.\n\nIn the past three years, scientists working under the first phase of the Commercial Products project, also known as COMPRO I, have identified three effective commercial products out of the over 100 products evaluated that enhance yields by 15-30 percent. These products include Rhizobium inoculants for legumes, mycorrhizal inoculants for bananas, and seed coating of for maize.\n\n\u201cCOMPRO-II will leverage on the gains earlier made in phase one, which covered Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria,\u201d says Vanlauwe.\n\nThe phase II of the project proposes to:\n
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  1. transit these technologies into Ghana, Tanzania, and Ug anda,<\/li>\n \t
  2. institutionalize regulatory and quality control processes,<\/li>\n \t
  3. disseminate effective products through public-private partnerships,<\/li>\n \t
  4. develop communication tools, and<\/li>\n \t
  5. strengthen human capacity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nAt the end of the project, more farmers are expected to confidently use these products because their safety, efficacy, and quality will be ensured through institutionalized regulatory and quality assurance mechanisms. Apart from IITA that will lead the project, COMPRO-II will work with the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa \u2013 Soil Health Program (AGRA), Farm Input Promotions (FIPS), the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Research Area of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (TSBF-CIAT), the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI), and universities, national research organizations, extension organizations, and quality control entities in the different target countries.\n\nThe COMPRO-II project will be officially launched on 16 and 17 May 2012 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. FIN<\/strong>\n\nFor more information, please contact:\n\nGodwin Atser, g.atser@cgiar.org<\/a>\nCorporate Communications Officer (West & Central Africa)\n\nJeffrey T. Oliver, o.jeffrey@cgiar.org<\/a>\nCorporate Communications Officer (International)\n\nIITA – Headquarters\nIbadan, Nigeria\n\n\u00c0 propos de l'IITA<\/strong>\nIITA is an international non-profit R4D organization established in 1967, governed by a Board of Trustees, and supported primarily by the CGIAR<\/a>. Nous travaillons avec des partenaires en Afrique et au-del\u00e0 pour r\u00e9duire les risques pour les producteurs et les consommateurs, am\u00e9liorer la qualit\u00e9 et la productivit\u00e9 des cultures, et g\u00e9n\u00e9rer de la richesse gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 l'agriculture. Nous d\u00e9veloppons des solutions agricoles avec nos partenaires pour lutter contre la faim et la pauvret\u00e9. Notre [...] prim\u00e9 recherche pour le d\u00e9veloppement<\/a> repose sur une pens\u00e9e cibl\u00e9e et autoritaire ancr\u00e9e dans les besoins de d\u00e9veloppement des pays tropicaux.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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