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Enhancing Soil Fertility in Africa: From Field to policy-makers (1999 - 2001)

Project Coordinator:                 E. Chuma

Funding:                                      European Commission

Collaborating Institutions:

• International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED)

• Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

• Dutch Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEO-DLO)

• The Royal Tropical Institute, the Netherlands (KIT)

• Institute d’Economic Rurale (IER) Mali

• Institute de l’Environment et de Recherche Agricole (INERA) Burkina Faso

• Kenya Agricultural Research Institute - Kenya

• Kenya Institute of Organic Farming - Kenya

• Makerere University - Uganda

• Environmental Alert - Uganda

• SOS Sahel International - Ethiopia

This International Cooperation with Developing Countries (INCO) concerted action project has the following as main objectives:

1. Create a network of ongoing field research programmes which are following a variety of disciplines and methods;

2. Improve understanding of diversity, scaling up issues and stakeholder perceptions and recognition of the implications for research method and policy design

3. Create the basis for more effective and realistic policies and interventions to support improved soil fertility management in sub-Saharan Africa.