Team Mission Nutrition

We can change the world

Specialized Soil Management

Food security

There will be 9 billion people by 2050

- We must develop new technologies and techniques to produce more feed, fiber, food and fuel

- With less land, less water, less energy, and fewer nutrient inputs

- Achieving this will require improved crops and ….

novel soil management strategies

The importance of soil

- Soil is a fundamental resource for life providing the basis for food and biomass production

- Soil filters our water and helps regulate many of the important greenhouse gases

- Soil is a non-renewable resource, which generated within hundreds or even thousands of years

Conclusion: Soil is one of the most valuable natural resource on earth

Project objectives

- Testing the general soil condition and nutrient content of soils of small-scale farmers in East-Africa,

by using in-situ testing with soil-testing kits and remote sensing methods

- Creating a Soil-Database with the obtained information

- Providing access for the small-scale farmers to appropriate fertilizers (“fingerprint”fertilizer) and thus improving the efficiency of nutrient cycling in the soil and increasing the crop yield at the same time

Project : Step 1

- Form a network of local experts: including university members and employees of syngenta as well as representatives of local farmers

- Gain the confidence of the local small-scale farmers

- Give free advice on tillage, fertilizer and cultivation

- Database and equipment (small lab) is set on an offroad-vehicle which drives from settlement to settlement

Project : Step 2

- Sell seed and fertilizers that specifically match to the soil properties

- Prices are adapted to the proceed of the crop sale

- Establish a person who controls crop yield and sale (preferably women)

Positive aspects

- Improving quality and quantity of crop

- Improving soil properties

- Improving quality of water in the course of fertilizer reduction in a region where no/few water treatment plants are present

- The database is advantageous for producers of agricultural products

- Women are included in the project

Mission Nutrition

Our project „specialized soil management“ is:Sustainable, economically advantageous and

environmentally beneficial