Fuel the Farmer. Feed the Soil. Foster the Future.
Healthy soils are the foundation of food security, climate resilience, and economic transformation. However, the global agricultural landscape faces mounting challenges: over 673 million people experience food insecurity, and more than one-third of the world’s soils are moderately to severely degraded.
Achieving lasting, sustainable agricultural impact requires scaling practical, science-based solutions adapted to real-world contexts.
IFDC is advancing fertilizer innovation, soil fertility, and soil health solutions with our partners in research and development, empowering farmers to grow more nutritious food, boost productivity, address food insecurity, enhance resilience of food systems, and protect the environment for lasting agricultural transformation.
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Our Strategic Goals
To address agricultural challenges the world faces now and in the future, IFDC aims to drive fertilizer innovation, deliver farmer impact at scale, and transform agricultural systems that will revitalize soil health, improve livelihoods, and build resilient food systems worldwide.
Fertilizer Innovation
Result 1: Global and Regional Capacity to Generate Context-Specific Fertilizer Solutions Is Strengthened
Establish the Global Network of Fertilizer Innovation Centers (GNFIC) to build regional capacity.
Result 2: Climate-Smart Fertilizers for Smallholder Farmers Are Co-Developed and Scaled
Collaborate with partners to design innovations tailored to specific regions, soils, crops, and climates, improving nutrient use efficiency, productivity, and environmental sustainability.
Result 3: Smallholder Farmers Access and Adopt Next-Generation Fertilizers
Work with the GNFIC’s extension partners and within our global programs to make innovations affordable, accessible, and scalable for smallholder farmers, especially women and youth.
Farmer Impact at Scale
Result 1: Farmers Adopt Sustainable Soil and Nutrient Management Practices for Higher Yields and Income
Support farmers through evidence-based field approaches, including Smart Diagnostics for soil testing, the Participatory Integrated Planning (PIP) method for farmer-led design of resilient farming systems, and the Caravan approach for upscaling transformative technologies.
Result 2: Farmers Access and Apply Innovative Inputs, Technologies, and Trainings
Deploy smallholder-centric, evidence-based models to test, adapt, and refine innovations through field trials, demonstration plots, innovation incubators, and learning exchanges.
Result 3: Farmers Secure Improved Access to Agricultural Markets
Facilitate market linkages that connect smallholder farmers to value-added opportunities and remunerative agricultural markets.
Sustainable Systems Transformation
Result 1: Inclusive Agriculture Value Chains Enhance Food Security and Increase Profitability
Deploy the Competitive Agricultural Systems and Enterprises (CASE) approach to develop agribusiness clusters and strengthen value chains that reduce post-harvest losses, improve nutrition, and increase profitability.
Result 2: Policy Frameworks Are Advocated and Implemented to Enable Fertilizer Innovation and Use in Alignment with Regional Strategies
Support fertilizer policy reform, regulatory strengthening, and quality control to develop regional evidence-based policies, harmonize standards, and advocate for sustainable fertilizer incentives.
Result 3: Global Partnerships Mainstream Fertilizer Innovation, Soil Health, and Climate-Smart Agriculture into Policy, Education, and Investment Systems
Establish and lead global partnership platforms that ensure nutrient use efficiency and climate-smart agriculture are incorporated into national and international systems, educational curricula, and investment frameworks.
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Join us in creating solutions that empower farmers and nourish the planet. Partner with IFDC today and contribute to a global network driving agricultural transformation from the ground up.