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Papers prepared at the IFA-FAO Agriculture Conference
"Global Food Security and the Role of Sustainable Fertilization"
Rome, Italy, 26-28 March 2003

All the papers are given in PDF format. A CD-rom containing all these documents is also available on request to the IFA Secretariat.

| Presentations | Panel Discussions | Posters | Recommendations (PDF format) |

• Welcoming remarks from IFA
  Wladimir Puggina, President of IFA
  | Paper | 

• Welcoming remarks from FAO
  David Harcharik, Deputy Director General of FAO
  | Paper |

• Global food security: facts, myths and policy needs
  Per Pinstrup-Andersen, 2001 World Food Prize Laureate, Cornell University
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• World agriculture, towards 2015/30
  Nikos Alexandratos, FAO
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• Fertilizer and world food demand - implications for environmental stresses
  David Norse, University College London
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• Farmers and food security
  Philip Kiriro, KENFAP
  | Paper | 

• Challenges facing the fertilizer industry
  Henk Mathot, Cargill
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• Plant nutrients: What we know, guess and do not know
  Louise Fresco, Assistant Director General, FAO
  | Paper | 

• Farm management systems and food production
  John Dixon and Aidan Gulliver, FAO
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• West Africa's subsistence farming
  Henk Breman, IFDC
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• Commercial farms in Southeast Asia
  Thomas Fairhurst, PPI-PPIC
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• Commercial farms in developed countries: insights from canadian prairie agriculture and "subsidy-free" New Zealand
  Ben Bradshaw, Simon Fraser University
  | Paper | & | Appendix | & | Slides |

• Impacts of biotechnology on fertilizer use: genomics & biotechnology
  Andy Pereira, Plant Research International
  | Slides |

• New fertilizer products
  Jari Peltonen, Kemira GrowHow
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• Complementary nutrient sources
  Wilfried Werner, Bonn University
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• Plant nutrition: challenges and tasks ahead
  Gamini Keerthisinghe, IAEA-FAO
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• Responding to new challenges
  Abdul Kobakiwal, FAO
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• Farming for nutritious foods: agricultural technologies for improved human health
  Ross Welch, Cornell University-USDA/ARS
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• Academic and R&D: what we can and what we need
  Christian Bonte-Friedheim, Humbolt University
  | Paper | & | Slides |

• Fertilizer industry and sustainability: from principle to action
  William J. Doyle, PotashCorp
  | Paper | 

Subsistence farming in developing countries

• Alvaro Fiallos, UNAG, Nicaragua
  | Paper |
• Philip Kiriro, KENFAP, Kenya
  | Paper | & | Slides |
• Raul Montemayor, Federation of Free Farmers, The Philippines
  | Paper | 
• K. N. Tiwari, PPI-PPIC, India
  | Slides |

Commercial farming in developing countries

• Patrick Apullah, Ghana Cotton Farmers' Association, Ghana
  | Paper | 
• Mario Barbosa Neto, Bunge Fertilizantes S.A., Brazil
  | Paper | 
• Poh-Soon Chew, IOI Corporation Berhad, Malaysia
  | Paper | & | Slides |
• Brian Sugden, South African Cane Growers' Association, South Africa
  | Paper | & | Slides |

Commercial farming in developed countries

• Robert G. Hoeft, University of Illinois, USA
  | Slides |
• Henrik Hoegh, Danish Agriculture, Denmark
  | Paper | & | Slides |
• Nina Khangaldyan, Phosagro, Russia
  | Paper | & | Slides |
• Bruce Lloyd, Australian Landcare Council, Australian
  | Paper |

• Quantifying the improvement of phosphorus uptake by crops from application fresh organic residues and phosphate rocks
  Z. Abdul Rahman, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
  | Abstract |

• Future agronomic crop production systems and fertilization in the United States
  M. Alley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
  | Abstract |

• Modern developments in foliar fertilization
  A. Alvin, Aglukon,Germany
  | Abstract |

• Development of fertilizer phosphorus management technologies for sustainable crop production, enhanced fertilizer use efficiency and environmental safety in semi-arid subtropical irrigated soils
  M. Aulakh, Punjab Agricultural University, India
  | Abstract |

• Balanced soil fertilization towards sustainable agriculture and food security in Iran
  M. R. Balali, Soil and Water Research Institute, Iran
  | Abstract |

• Balanced fertilization and sustainability of crop productivity in some cropping systems of India under long term cropping
  S. K. Bansal, Potash Research Institute of India, India
  | Abstract |

• Fertiliser is not a dirty word
  G. Blair, University of New England, Australia
  | Abstract |

• A comparative analysis of nutrient management in subsistence and commercial potato-based systems in the Andes of Ecuador and Peru
  W. Bowen, IFDC, USA
  | Abstract |

• Marketing Inputs Regionally (MIR): to promote intensive, sustainable and profitable agriculture
  H. Breman, IFDC, Togo
  | Abstract |

• Evaluation of the sustainability of optimum nitrogen fertilizer application
  F. Brentrup, Hydro Agri, Germany
  | Abstract |

• Sustainable nutrient management in New Zealand agriculture - towards integration
  H. Furness, New Zealand Fertiliser Manufacturers' Research Association, New Zealand
  | Abstract |

• Potential for agrotain as a nitrogen management tool
  C. Grant, AAFC Brandon Research Centre, Canada
  | Abstract |

• The contribution of fertilizers to crop yields
  A. E. Johnston, Rothamsted Research, UK
  | Abstract |

• Fertilizer recommendations for phosphorus and potassium and soil analysis
  A. E. Johnston, Rothamsted Research, UK
  | Abstract |

• Fertigation of corn in Israel and Uganda using micro-drip irrigation system operated by gravity force
  U. Kafkafi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  | Abstract |

• Energy efficiency of mineral fertilizer use in agricultural production
  J. Küsters, Hydro Agri, Germany
  | Abstract |

• The principles of site-specific nutrient management for rice
  J. K. Ladha, IRRI, The Philippines
  | Abstract |

• The promotion of site-specific nutrient management for rice in Asia
  J. K. Ladha, IRRI, The Philippines
  | Abstract |

• Challenges in adapting soil management technology into areas of expansion of agriculture in Argentina
  R. Melgar, Fertilizar, Argentina
  | Abstract |

• Technology, food production and environmental preservation: a case study in Brazil
  A. Scheid Lopes, Federal University of Lavras, Brazil
  | Abstract |

• Studies on the efficient use of phosphorus in cereals and pulses through African rock phosphates and superphosphate to improve the livelihoods of small and marginal farmers in a participatory mode in mountain lands of Western Himalayas, India
  P. K. Sharma, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University, India
  | Abstract |

• Fertilizer legislation for sustainable agriculture
  A. Siegenthaler, Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture, Switzerland
  | Abstract |

• Increasing the impacts of soil fertility research in semi-arid areas of Africa
  S. Twomlow, ICRISAT, Zimbabwe
  | Abstract |

• Fertilizers and sustainable development
  B. Van Raij, Instituto Agronômico, Brazil
  | Abstract |