Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas of Africa

Trends in agricultural fertilizer use per region for the period 2000-2015 Agriculture fertilizer consumption - Grand Total Nitrogen & P2O5 (1,000 metric tons)

Egypt

1750

1500

Tunisia

1250

North Africa

500

Algeria

500

1000

250

250

750

0

Libya

Morocco

2000 - 2015

500

500

0

500

2000 - 2015

250

250

250

Tunisia

0

0

2000 - 2015

0

2000 - 2015

2000 - 2015

Morocco

Sudan

500

Algeria

Libya

250

Egypt

0

2000 - 2015

Ethiopia

500

Senegal

250

Sudan

500

0

Senegal

250

2000 - 2015

0

2000 - 2015

Nigeria

Ethiopia

Côte d’Ivoire

West Africa

East Africa

Côte d’Ivoire

Cameroon

Nigeria

500

750

500 Kenya

Cameroon

Kenya

250

500

500

250

0

250

2000 - 2015

250

0

0

Tanzania

0

2000 - 2015

2000 - 2015

Tanzania

2000 - 2015

500

Cental Africa

250

0

2000 - 2015

Zambia

Zambia

Zimbabwe

500

250

0

South Africa

2000 - 2015

750

Zimbabwe

500

500

Southern Africa

South Africa

250

250

0

0

2000 - 2015

2000 - 2015

1 000 km

Source: IFASTAT database available at https://www.ifastat.org/databases/plant-nutrition

GRID-Arendal/Studio Atlantis

Figure 2.6 . Trends in agricultural fertilizer use per region for the period 2000-2016

2.5.2 Regulation and management of agricultural wastewater

in most African countries have focused on increased crop yields, but some of themodern farmingmethods adopted (e.g. involving intensive use of agrochemicals) by most farmers pose a threat to the environment (agriculture water pollution), sustainable agricultural production and the health and functional capacity of agro-ecosystems (Agula et al. 2018). Current programmes and policies are therefore keen to sustain

farmland fertility and maintain ecosystem resilience, for example, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) and ECOWAS Agricultural policy (ECOWAP) (Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS] Commission 2009; Zimmermann et al. 2009). The response to these policies and programmes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, has been low (Abdul-Hanan et al. 2014).

Like elsewhere in the world, agriculture in Africa uses and manages land, water and energy resources (NEPAD 2013). Hence agricultural development and the sustainable development of natural resources are inextricably linked. Interventions on crop production

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