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Eight new projects launched during
2014, including the Fertilizer Sector
Improvement (FSI) project in Myanmar.
The project will boost rice yields by 15
to 25 percent and vegetable yields by
5 to 25 percent using fertilizer deep
placement (FDP) technology.
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IFDC and the Kenyan government signed
an accreditation agreement formalizing
their shared commitment to sustainable
agricultural development in the country.
The agreement establishes Kenya as a
“host” country to IFDC.
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IFDC joined the Global Alliance
for Climate-Smart Agriculture and
expanded urea deep placement (UDP), a
climate-smart technology, to farmers in
Bangladesh and other areas of the world.
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The Growth Enhancement Support –
Touch and Pay (GES-TAP) pilot project
registered more than 500,000 Nigerian
farmers for input subsidy assistance. The
TAP technology helps farmers receive
fertilizer more efficiently and ensures
agro-dealers receive payment in a timely
manner.
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IFDC staff were instrumental in providing
technical support for Ethiopia’s first
fertilizer blending facility, Becho Weliso
Fertilizer Factory, in Tullo Bullo.
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The 2SCALE project worked with 260,000
farmers in nine sub-Saharan countries
and established 53 public-private
partnerships that enable smallholders
to access new technologies and larger
markets.
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3 | 2014 ANNUAL REPORT
IFDC commemorated its 40th anniversary
by hosting events in Washington, D.C.,
and Muscle Shoals, Ala., and by releasing
Feeding a Hungry World: IFDC’s First
Forty Years, written by Thomas Hager
(Alchemy of Air).
An IFDC scientist and collaborators in
Bangladesh established a greenhouse
gas emission laboratory and field trials at
the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute
(BRRI) and Bangladesh Agricultural
University (BAU).