{"id":13075,"date":"2026-06-20T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/iita-proffers-recipe-to-food-insecurity\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:18","slug":"iita-proffers-recipe-to-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/iita-proffers-recipe-to-food-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"IITA proffers recipe to food insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newint.iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image_gallery-10-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9807 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/newint.iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image_gallery-10-2.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"250\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>Food security in Africa will remain elusive with isolated successes, fueling a sense of false optimism in an otherwise dismal situation unless decisive actions are taken to assist small-scale farmers to grow more  and more valuable crops, according to the Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dr Nteranya Sanginga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing participants at the Crawford Fund annual conference in Australia, Dr Sanginga noted that in spite of the progress made in crop improvement, low soil fertility  and nutrient depletion continue to present huge obstacles to securing the needed harvests. The Director General\u2019s position is supported by recent studies by IITA in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa that show that majority of the soils in that region are now barren with very little fertility. The barren soils are a result of years of mining  and insufficient replacement of nutrients by smallholder farmers, mostly practicing low-input agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Sanginga suggested the adoption of Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) which is defined as &#8216;the application of soil fertility management practices,  and the knowledge to adapt these to local conditions, which optimize fertilizer  and organic resource use efficiency  and crop productivity.\u2019 ISFM is also the topic of an ongoing international conference in Nairobi, Kenya, where the Institute\u2019s natural resource management specialists  and experts, including the DG, are attending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Sanginga said that ISFM presented a means to overcome the dilemma of low productivity, by offering farmers better returns for investment in fertilizer, through its combination with indigenous agro-minerals  and available organic resources. He, however, pointed out that disseminating the knowledge of ISFM  and developing incentives for its adoption now st and as a challenge for national planners  and rural development specialists,  and if done efficiently would result in more productive  and sustainable agriculture, improved household  and regional food security,  and increased incomes among small-scale farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Africa Union&#8217;s Abuja declaration on fertilizers for an African Green Revolution, which has stated that efforts to reduce hunger on the continent must begin by addressing its severely depleted soils, recommends countries to increase fertilizer use from the current 8kg\/ha to at least 50 kg\/ha by 2015 to boost agricultural production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Participants at this year\u2019s Crawford Fund annual conference included the Chief Executive Officer of the CGIAR, Dr. Frank Rijsberman  and the Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI, Dr Shenggen Fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The annual conference is a key event in Australia\u2019s international development calendar. It attracts development professionals, decision makers, researchers, agribusiness people, farmers, conservationists, educators, students,  and other stakeholders. This year\u2019s event with the theme, \u201cThe Scramble for Natural Resources: More Food, Less L and?\u201d also marked the Crawford Fund\u2019s 25th anniversary. <strong>FIN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pour toute information, veuillez contacter :<br>Godwin Atser, <a>g.atser@cgiar.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00c0 propos de l'IITA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>IITA (<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\">www.iita.org<\/a>) is an international non-profit research-for-development organization\u00a0established in\u00a01967  and governed by a Board of Trustees. We work with partners in Africa  and beyond to enhance crop quality  and productivity, reduce producer  and consumer risks,  and generate wealth from agriculture. 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