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IFDC Launches Virtual Fertilizer Research Center
Muscle Shoals, Ala. – Feb. 23, 2010 –
IFDC is launching the Virtual Fertilizer Research
Center (VFRC), a global research initiative to
create the next generation of fertilizers and
production technologies, with initial financial
support provided by the U.S. Agency for
International Development.
IFDC News From Around the World:
Muscle Shoals returns to roots in fertilizer
March 3, 3010
CBS42.com
Work under way by
a Shoals organization is aimed at providing
farmers with affordable fertilizers that also
would be more environmentally friendly than
those used now on farms around the globe.
IFDC Initiates Virtual Fertilizer Research
Center
March 1, 2010
chemicals-technology.com
IFDC said it is
launching a global research initiative Virtual
Fertilizer Research Center (VFRC) to create the
next generation of fertilisers and production
technologies.
IFDC to boost food security with Virtual
Fertiliser Research Centre
March 1, 2010
Business Day
Global food
security stands to get a boost soon as IFDC is
set to launch the Virtual Fertilizer Research
Center (VFRC…
Hunger Fighter
February 28, 2010
Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine
For some 220 days
a year, Amit Roy, MS ChE 71, PhD ChE 76, is in
the trenches in some of the hungriest places on
Earth as president and CEO of the International
Fertilizer Development Center…
Center a global leader
in fertilizer development
February 26,
2010
Made in the Shoals, TimesDaily Progress
Edition
In its 35-year
history in the Shoals, IFDC, an
International Center for Soil Fertility, has
become synonymous with the innovations that
help feed a hungry world.
A virtual university to produce next gen
fertilisers
February 25, 2010
Commodity Online
Growing population
and finite arable land could create food supply
problems that will have to be tackled through
efficiency in crop production and technologies.
To meet this critical need to increase food
supply, IFDC is launching a Virtual Fertilizer
Research Center (VFRC)…
New generation of fertilizer research based in
Shoals
February 24, 2010
TimesDaily
Research under way
by scientists working for Muscle Shoals-based
IFDC could return Muscle Shoals to the forefront
of fertilizer development. Scientists around the
world are working on a new IFDC project aimed at
developing a new generation of environmentally
friendly, affordable fertilizers.
UT Chancellor appointed chair of global fertilizer
research initiative
February 24, 2010
WVLT
University of Tennessee Chancellor Jimmy Cheek has
been appointed to chair a new global research
initiative created to discover the next generation
of fertilizers and production technologies.
Acid soil threatens Chinese farms
February 11, 2010
Nature
Upendra Singh, a
soil scientist at the IFDC, a non-profit public
organization based in Muscle Shoals, Alabama,
that carries out agricultural research, adds
that Chinese farmers could also leave dead crop
biomass on the fields to help rebalance the
soil…
NAFDAC to Ban Unauthorised Agro-Chemical Dealers
February 11, 2010
allAfrica.com
Wallace explained
that the training was aimed at assisting more
than 1,400 agro dealers to achieve increased
agricultural productivity…
Research, latest tech needed
February 7, 2010
The Daily Star
There should be
virtual research centres with experts from Asia,
Africa, Europe and Australia so that they can
share information fast and develop new
technologies that maximise yields with less
input costs, the IFDC president said…
Kwara, IFDC spend N60m on census, subsidy
February 2, 2010
The Punch
The Kwara State
Government, in collaboration with the
International Centre for Soil Fertility and
Agricultural Development, is to spend N60m on
the enumeration of farmers…
Round the year farming stressed
February 1, 2010
The Daily Star
Hasina called upon
the IFDC to invent drought-resistant
environment-friendly fertilisers as part of
efforts to adapt to climate change and protect
the environment…
PM for increasing use of compost fertilizer
January 31, 2010
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina today called upon the
International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC)
to expedite research in innovating new
fertilizers which have harmless effects on crops
as well as on farm land…
Guti urea spreads to 10 countries in Asia,
Africa
January 31, 2010
The New Nation
Success of
adaptation of urea deep placement technology in
paddy fields, known as 'guti' urea in
Bangladesh, encouraged farmers in several
numbers of Asian and African countries…
IFDC receives grant for
free media monitoring service from CyberAlert
January 26,
2010
CyberAlert Press Release
In announcing
the award recipients, William J. Comcowich,
president and CEO of CyberAlert stated:
“We're very pleased that CyberAlert can
effectively help these not-for-profit
organizations monitor their public relations
successes as they carry on their vital
services.”
Quality feed improves milk production
January 2010
USAID/KAED II Success Story
Thanks to USAID’s
Kyrgyz Agro-Input Enterprise Development
Project, implemented by IFDC, Belinskaya has
significantly improved farm management and
enhanced cattle health…
NOCAIDA to promote agricultural development in
the north
January 24, 2010
Leadership Nigeria
Some of the
objectives of the association, which was
established in 2004 with the assistance of
International Centre for Soil Fertility and
Agricultural Development, include…
Innovative program helps Agrium battle
malnutrition in Africa
December 24, 2009
Agrium Press Release
Agrium, in
partnership with the International Fertilizer
Development Center, has introduced an innovative
program in Sub-Saharan Africa…
New seed varieties to boost farmers’ income
January 8, 2010
Daily News
The Country
Coordinator of Extending Agro Dealer Networks,
Mr. Filbert Mzee, who is working under the
International Centre for Soil Fertility and
Agriculture Development (IFDC), urged the
government to insist on the use of fertilizer
for high productivity.
Programme alimentaire mondial : Un nouveau
projet au Burkina Faso
December 7, 2009
Lefaso.net
Le Programme
alimentaire mondial des Nations unies (PAM) a
procédé le jeudi 2 décembre dernier au lancement
officiel de son nouveau projet "Achats au
service du progrčs" (P4P) visant ŕ appuyer les
petits producteurs du Burkina Faso.
The CATALIST Project
December 7, 2009
Helpage
Helpage partners
with IFDC, an International Center for Soil
Fertility and Agricultural Development, in the
implementation of…
Dr. Amit Roy speaks at The World Bank’s
Agriculture and Rural Development event – ARD Week
2009.
Day Two Forum – Tuesday, March 3
Video link has presentation by Dr. Roy on Global
Fertilizer Situation and Fertilizer Access.
Link to Video
USAID Central Asia
Newsletter
December 1, 2009
Kyrgyzstan
produced approximately 1.2 million metric tons
of highly desirable bread wheat this season…
IFDC pledges commitment to agric devt in
W/Africa
November 23,
2009
Business World
Dr. Amit Roy,
president and chief executive officer of
IFDC who made the pledge at the launch of a
new agricultural project tagged Marketing
Inputs Regionally (MIR Plus), said…
Maximizing investments in farm holdings
November 22,
2009
The Nation
While shedding
light on the objectives of the project, Dr.
Dr Georges Dimithe, MIR Plus Project
Coordinator, said the project, which is
going to be through public-private
partnership, seeks to create…
ECOWAS urges members to invest in
agriculture
November 16,
2009
Punch
Similarly, the
President and Chief Executive Officer of the
International Centre for Soil Fertility and
Agricultural Development, Dr. Amit Roy, said
that most African countries had registered
more population growth than their food
production rate in the last three decades.
New thinking needed to fight
hunger in Africa
November 10, 2009
African Press International
Speaking at an international
training forum attended by agricultural
stakeholders from East and southern Africa, IFDC
East and Southern African Division director Rob
Groot asked…
IFDC: Le Nigeria, un exportateur
potential
November 10, 2009
Casafree.com
Scott Wallace, un expert en
matičre d'agriculture au sein du Centre
international pour la fertilité des sols et le
développement de l'agriculture (IFDC)…
Cutting fertiliser to increase food
production
October 30, 2009
ABC Rural Report for Northern Tasmania
How are the world's farmers going to double food
production within 40 years?
Maybe the answer lies in better use
of the fertilisers we have. In this report: Dr Amit
Roy is president of the International Fertiliser
Development Centre, with headquarters in Alabama in
the U.S.
Possible fertiliser solution
October 29, 2009
ABC Rural Report for North & West
Feed the world
October 28, 2009
ABC Canberra
World Food Day and food security
October 19, 2009
Business Today
World Food Day was established by the Food and
Agricultural Organisation’s (FAO) member countries
at the organisation’s 20th general conference in
November 1979.
Smallholders need access to
technology and knowledge
October 16, 2009
International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP)
press release
On
the occasion of World Food Day, a group of
international agricultural organizations…
IFDC receives proclamation from city
of Muscle Shoals
October 2009
Farmers benefit from fertiliser
voucher scheme
October 15, 2009
234next.com
140,000 farmers in Kano State and 80,000 in Taraba
State have benefited from the ongoing pilot
Fertiliser Voucher Scheme…
Use of Guti urea can enhance 10pc
rice production
October 13, 2009
The New Nation
Experts on Monday said that popularizing large-scale
use of Guti urea…
U.S. Senator Richard Shelby paid
tribute to IFDC on the occasion of the
organization's 35th anniversary
October 8, 2009
The disappearing nutrient
October 8, 2009
Nature
“I
am starting to think phosphate rock is becoming a
strategic material…”
IFDC, KNARDA introduces urea fertiliser
September 21, 2009
Triumph - Kano,Nigeria
By GARBA WADA WAZIRI THE International Centre for
Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development
(IFDC), in collaboration with Kano State
Agricultural Rural ...
Fertilizer development a 'human
issue'
September 17,
2009
Times Daily - Florence,AL,USA
Speaking Wednesday at a lecture sponsored by Muscle
Shoals-based IFDC, the International Center for
Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development,
...
Thicket Magazine… Alabama
Redefined» Summer 2009 » Laboratory ...
Summer 2009
By Todd
The second way is to plainly state that the
International Center for Soil Fertility &
Agricultural Development (IFDC)— the
transnational organization responsible for
continuing this legacy—is in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
...
Thicket Magazine... Alabama Redefined - http://thicketmag.com/content/
IFDC research to create jobs
August 29, 2009
Times Daily -
Florence,AL,USA
Amit Roy, president and chief executive officer of
IFDC, which touts itself as an international
center for soil fertility and agricultural
development, ...
Nigeria: Kano Gets 21,000
Tonnes of Fertiliser
August 30, 2009
500 millions de dollars de
l’AGRA pour financer l’agriculture au Nigeria
August 29, 2009
Afrique-500 millions de
dollars de l’AGRA pour financer l’agriculture au
Nigeria
August 29, 2009
Farmers using Guti urea to
boost yield in Sidr-hit areas
August 20, 2009
140000 Kano farmers benefit from
fertilizer voucher scheme
August 6, 2009
Triumph - Kano,Nigeria
Kura also said IFDC, which is among the most
vibrant NGOs, gives total technical support for
ensuring success of the fertilizer voucher scheme.
...
IS
CASSAVA A CASH CROP?
Commercial Processing and Food Security
Nigeria’s Harvest Market Update
August 3, 2009
Agricultural input dealers sign MOU
on training
July 20, 2009
Ghana News Agency - Accra,Ghana
The MoU was signed between International Centre
for Soil Fertility and Agricultural
Development (IFDC) on the one hand and the Plant
Protection and ...
River Basin Authority assists 180
villages on irrigation
July 17, 2009
NEXT - Lagos,Lagos State,Nigeria
The Project Manager said the authority was also
collaborating with the Togo based International
Centre for Soil and Fertility and
Agricultural Development ...
Nigeria:
Agro-Chemicals – IFDC to Train Agro-Dealers
July 14, 2009
Emergency Rice Initiative: 10000 Kano
farmers to benefit
July 10, 2009
Triumph - Kano,Nigeria
Malam Bello Yakasai, an official of the IFDC, an
International Centre for Soil Fertility and
Agricultural Development, disclosed this in an
interview with ...
G8 leaders must address future food crisis
July 8, 2009
IFA Press Release
Dr. Marjatta
Eilitta, Director of IFDC’s North and West
Africa Division (NWAFD), and based in Ghana,
said, “In sub-Saharan Africa today, smallholder
farmers still lack the fundamental resources
which they need to manage their farms and make
them profitable and sustainable.”
Justmeans | Sustainable
Development - Justmeans.com: A new chapter
...
July 7, 2009
By SaraJolenaWolcott
To bring you a fuller picture of this story, I
interviewed Dr. Marjatta Eilitta in Ghana, the
Director of the North and West Africa Division of
IFDC, an international center for soil fertility
and agricultural development. ...
JustMeans - http://www.justmeans.com/editorial/
New technology to save urea, increase
yield
July 4, 2009
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
... said Mofizul Islam, senior agriculturist
of International Centre for Soil Fertility
and Agricultural Development (IFDC) in Dhaka.
...
No alternative to modern tech to up farm
production-The New Nation
July 4, 2009
The New nation - Dhaka,Bangladesh
Farming First welcomes IFDC to its list of
supporters
June 29, 2009
Farming First Press Release
IFDC has joined the group of organizations
supporting the Farming First plan.
MoU renewed
Between CropLife Africa Middle East & IFDC
June 2009
CropLife
Victor Attuquaye Clottey
International Center for Soil Fertility ...
June 2009
Organisation: International Center for Soil
Fertility and Agricultural Development (IFDC).
Address: Accra office, Ghana. Postal code: City:
Accra ...
Ghana: Project to Boost Rice
Production Launched in Upper East
June 15, 2009
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... International Centre for Soil
Fertility and Agriculture Developmental ...
funded by the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) is ...
The coming of foreign farm investors
June 8 2009
BusinessDay - Lagos,Nigeria
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
and the International Center for Soil
Fertility and Agricultural Development (IFDC)
are concerned about ...
Project to boost rice production
launched in Upper East Region ...
June 7, 2009
The project is
being implemented by Africa Rice Centre,
Catholic Relief Services, the International
Centre for Soil Fertility, Agriculture
Developmental Services (IFDC) and the Savannah
Agriculture Research Institute (SARI). The
initiative is targeting 10, 000 rice farmers in the
three ... Dr Stephen Nutsugah, Acting
Director of SARI, noted that the United States
Agency for International Development is
funding the project, which is expected to cover a
two- year period. ...
General
News - http://www.modernghana.com/
Farmers to be supported to increase
rice production in the north
June 3, 2009
Ghana News - Accra,Ghana
... International Soil Fertility and
Agricultural Development (IFDC) and ...
Dr Stephen Nutsugah, an official of Centre
for Scientific and Industrial ...
African Leaders Pursue “Malawi
Miracle”
May 28, 2009
WorldChanging - USA
International donors such as the World Bank
and US Agency for ... to the International
Center for Soil Fertility and Agricultural
Development (IFDC). ...
Crop Modeling May Help Increase Crop
Yields
May 28, 2009
Southeast Farm Press - USA
Top agricultural scientists from across the
United States met in Georgia this ... the
International Center for Soil Fertility and
Agricultural Development. ...
Farmers to get subsidy, rice price
support
Sunday, April 26, 2009
The Daily Star -
Dhaka,Bangladesh
Speaking at the function, US Ambassador James F
Moriarty said the project will be implemented under
International Fertilizer Development Corporation (IFDC)
...
04.13.09
Increase productivity through
careful use of fertilizers: expert
04.09.09
IFDC Featured in Mid-South Farmer,
USA
IFDC
Article Featured
in Science Daily
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Nigeria: Govt Earmarks N250
Billion for Commercial Agriculture
February 24, 2009
10.08.08
AGRA, IFDC launch innovative
Agro-Dealer Programme in Nigeria
08.15.08
Soaring fertiliser prices threaten
world's poorest farmers
07.18.08
FAO launches emergency rice programme in West Africa
07.06.08
CATALIST Project Promotes Peace,
Environmental Stability in Great Lakes Region of Central
Africa
07.07.08
Farmers squeezed by soaring fuel, fertilizer costs
04.24.08
John Allen, Challenged by Fertiliser's
Elasticity - As Prices Spike, Newport-Fersan's Market
Erodes
02.19.08
World Fertilizer Prices Soar as
Food and Fuel Economies Merge
02.05.08
An Interview With Mark Davies
12.28.07
Bangladesh Will Dramatically
Expand Technology That Doubles Efficiency of Urea
Fertilizer Use
12.25.07
On Use and Abuse of Pesticides
11.16.07
Experts task NAFDAC on substandard
pesticides
12.03.07
Vo-Tong Xuan Named to IFDC
Board
AFRICAN HEADS OF
STATE COMMIT TO FAR-REACHING REFORMS TO REDUCE STEEP
PRICE OF FERTILIZER AND START A GREEN REVOLUTION IN
AFRICA
ABUJA, NIGERIA
(13 June 2006)—Heads of state and governments
from more than 40
African nations agreed today to lift all
cross-border taxes and tariffs on fertilizer,
designating mineral and organic fertilizer as a
“strategic commodity.” They also agreed
to establish an African fertilizer financing
mechanism within the African Development
Bank to significantly increase the availability and
access to fertilizer on the continent.
June 13, 2006 |
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PETER MCPHERSON
AND RUDY RABBINGE: "FERTILIZER SUBSIDIES WITHOUT
BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND TRAINING WILL
LEAVE AFRICA JUST ONE SEASON AWAY FROM THE NEXT FOOD
CRISIS"
Abuja, Nigeria
(13 June 2006) – In remarks to the first Africa
Fertilizer Summit, Peter
McPherson and Rudy Rabbinge, two members of the
Summit’s Eminent Persons Advisory Group, strongly
supported an African-led approach to solving the
continent's food and agricultural crisis
permanently. Peter McPherson is the founding
co-chair of the Partnership to Cut Hunger and
Poverty in Africa and former USAID Administrator.
As Administrator, McPherson was responsible for the
U.S. program that delivered two million tons of food
to Africa during the great famine of 1984-85. Prof.
Rudy Rabbinge is Chairman of the United Nations
Panel on Food Security and Agricultural Productivity
in Africa and a member of the Dutch Parliament.
June 13, 2006 |
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Nigerian Company
Re-opens Only Urea Fertilizer Plant In Sub-Saharan
Africa to Meet Summit Call for African Green
Revolution
ABUJA, NIGERIA
(12 June 2006)—The re-opening of the only urea
fertilizer plant in sub-Saharan Africa that
manufactures urea—and one of the world’s largest
fertilizer plants—was announced at the Africa
Fertilizer Summit in Abuja 9-13 June.
June 13, 2006 |
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Nobel Peace
Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug Challenges African
Leaders to Marshal Political Will to Start an
African Green Revolution
ABUJA, NIGERIA
(11 June 2006) -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Norman Borlaug, best known for saving millions of
people in Asia and Latin America from hunger through
the scientific and technological innovations known
as the “Green Revolution,” urged African agriculture
ministers, politicians and others to find the
political will to start an African Green Revolution
by replenishing the continent’s severely depleted
soils. Some threequarters
of Africa’s lands south of the Sahara are severely
degraded.
June 11, 2006 |
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Experts at
Africa Summit Highlight Challenges and Promise of
Increasing Farm Yield to End Hunger
ABUJA, NIGERIA,
9 June 2006—The largest and most comprehensive
effort to tackle Africa’s soil fertility crisis –
the Africa Fertilizer Summit - opened in Abuja
today. Leading African and international
policymakers and agricultural experts highlighted
both the significant challenges that African farmers
face as a result of declining soil fertility, and
the potential productivity gains from even modest
fertilizer use.
June 9, 2006 |
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African and
Global Leaders Convene To Revive Africa’s Failing
Agriculture
With new data
showing that at least three-quarters of African
farmland south of the
Sahara is plagued by severe degradation – creating
perpetually low farm yields across a continent
plagued by hunger –African and global development
leaders will gather for a Summit in Abuja, Nigeria
on June 9-13. The Summit will devise an action-plan
and specific steps to end Africa’s soil fertility
crisis. The Africa Fertilizer Summit will be
convened by the African Union through its New
Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), hosted
by the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
and chaired by His Excellency, Olusegun Obasanjo,
President of Nigeria and Chairman of the African
Union’s Implementation Committee.
June 9, 2006 |
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Global Leaders
Launch Effort to Turn Around Africa’s Failing
Agriculture
New Study Reports
Three-Quarters of African Farmlands Plagued by
Severe Degradation
NEW YORK (30 March
2006) About 75 percent of the farmland in
sub-Saharan Africa is plagued by severe degradation,
losing basic soil nutrients needed to grow the crops
that feed Africa, according to a new report released
today on the precipitous decline in African soil
health from 1980 to 2004. Africa’s crisis in
food production and battle with hunger are largely
rooted in this “soil health crisis.”
March 30, 2006 |
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