The objective of the project was to improve food security by building the competence of farmers and NGOs in soil fertility management. The project was implemented in Macina and Koro/Bankass in collaboration with CARE, in Bafaloubé in collaboration with AIDEB and in Gossi in collaboration with OADS. The project focused on four different technologies: microdosing of fertiliser, composting, zai method for water harvesting and urea treatment of straw. In each village the farmers selected one test farmer for each of the technologies to be evaluated.

Farmer to farmer visits within and between villages, field days, regional workshops and radio diffusions were used to scale-up the results from the study. Village IPNM committees have been established in many villages and one regional IPNM committee has been established in Macina.

Adoption of the technologies can be best studied on the basis of what the farmers are actually doing. The IPNM committees registered a demand for 450 sacs of fertiliser in 2004, but access to fertiliser was very difficult because of the political crisis in the Ivory Coast. Despite this, many farmers were able to get hold of fertiliser in small quantities and apply it on their farm.