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with new COVID-19 lockdown policies, understanding moving for this growing season in Africa. But as lockdowns
where and how barriers to distribution are impacting and other impacts continue, we will need to monitor
farmers is crucial for agricultural productivity. these indicators; countries likely won’t feel the full impact
until the next growing season.
The dashboard was developed through a partnership
between the International Fertilizer Development Center’s
(IFDC) AfricaFertilizer.org initiative, the African Fertilizer The Dashboard
and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP), Development The COVID-19 Africa Fertilizer Watch Dashboard is publicly
Gateway, and AFRIQOM.
available online via https://africafertilizerwatch.org/. This
dashboard uses 11 indicators such as price, availability,
The fertilizer sector has been lucky that most ships were port operations, domestic transport, and government
in the seas when COVID-19 hit so product was already
mitigation measures to track and visualize COVID-19’s

Screenshot from the COVID-19 Africa Fertilizer Watch Dashboard

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