IFDC-Africa works in close collaboration with national collaborators and partner institutions in a number of African Countries:

Benin:  Institut National des Recherches Agricoles du Bénin (INRAB); Centre d’Action Régionale pour le Développement Rural (CARDER); Centre National d’Agropédologie (CENAP)

Burkina Faso:  Union Nationale des Producteurs de Coton du Burkina and Fédération Nationale des Organisations Paysannes (FENOP) UGFS: Unité de Gestion de la Fertilité des Sols (UGFS); Programme de Développement Local du Zoudweogo (PDL/Z)

Ghana:  Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI); Statistics Research and Information Directorate (SRID).

Mali:  Assemblée Permanente des Chambres d’Agriculture du Mali; Réseau des Opérateurs d’Intrants Agricoles (ORIAM); Institut d’Economie Rurale (IER); Equipe Système de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles (SPGRN)

Niger:  Institut National de Recherche Agronomique du Niger (INRAN); Office de la Haute Vallée du Niger (OHVN).

Nigeria:  Institute of Agricultural Research/Ahmaduh Bello University (IAR/ABU). 

Togo:  Institut de Conseil et d’Appui Technique (ICAT); Institut Togolais de Recherche Agronomique (ITRA); Centre de Recherche, d’Essai des Modèles d’Autopromotion (CREMA); Recherche, Appui et Formation aux Initiatives d’Autodéveloppement (RAFIA)

IFDC-Africa is co-coordinating activities related to the theme "Combating Nutrient Depletion" under the Soil, Water and Nutrient Management (SWNM), an ecoregional initiative launched by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). IFDC-Africa participates in two other ecoregional initiatives of the CGIAR: the Ecoregional Program for the Humid and Subhumid Tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa (EPHTA), with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) as Convening Center and the Desert Margins Program (DMP), with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) as Convening Center. IFDC-Africa is a member of the group of international facilitators of the World Bank-led Soil Fertility Initiative (SFI).

The Japanese International Research Centre for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) has chosen IFDC-Africa as a partner for extending its activities in the areas of soil fertility improvement and desertification control in West Africa

Return to IFDC-Africa Main Page...