Mali, Linking Fertilizer Micro dosing with Input-Output Markets to Boost Smallholder Farmers’ Livelihoods

Country: Mali
Project details
Services:
Enterprise development
Nutrition
Value chain development
Crops:
Cowpea
Millets
Sorghum

Linking Fertilizer Micro dosing with Input-Output Markets to Boost Smallholder Farmers’ Livelihoods, Mali, 2009-2012

Donors: AGRA

Partners: IER, ICRISAT, Voisins Mondiaux

Goal

  • Increase the production of millet, sorghum, and cowpea by at least 50%.
  • Improve farm income by 30% for 130,000 farm households in Mali.
  • Achieve these goals through the large-scale dissemination and adoption of the Fertilizer Microdosing and Warrantage System.

What We Do

  • Expand the use of fertilizer micro-dosing technology among smallholder farmers.
  • Promote the inventory credit system (warrantage) to improve farmers' access to input and output markets.
  • Strengthen the capacity of farmers and agro-dealers in integrated soil fertility management.
  • Provide science-based solutions to research challenges, ensuring better system performance and sustainability.
  • Monitor and assess the impact of interventions on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

Accomplishments

  • 104 fertilizer demonstrations (including some in school fields) were organized in 44 villages of the Segou region.
  • Five warrantage storage facilities were remodeled, and two new ones were under construction.