Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa have traditionally cleared land, grown a few crops, and then moved on to clear more land, leaving the land fallow to regain its fertility. But population pressure now forces farmers to grow crop after crop, mining the soil of nutrients while giving nothing back.
Fertilizer use in Africa is less than 10% of that in Asia and South America and the food and poverty situation in Africa is worsening.
A strategy to make vital plant nutrients available to African farmers will be developed at the Africa Fertilizer Summit, to be held from 9-13 June 2006 in Abuja, (...)

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