Argus Fertilizer Africa Conference

Enhance your fertilizer market knowledge with the Argus Fertilizer Fundamentals Workshop, available as an add-on with both virtual and in-person components. This session is designed to deepen your understanding of the fertilizer market through expert-led presentations and interactive engagement.

What’s included:

• Pre-event access to downloadable video materials.
• Live workshop featuring Argus market specialists who will provide insights into key market dynamics.
• Interactive Q&A using Slido – submit your questions in advance (we’ll review them beforehand to ensure relevance and quality).
• Topic sign-up sheets will be available to gauge interest and tailor the session to your needs.

*Please note: This is an add-on session and requires an additional fee.

• How is the fertilizer industry structured in Tanzania? What does demand look like? What kind of access to value chains is being planned?
• Long term strategies: Agriculture and fertilizer markets over the next 5-10 years
• Why is Tanzania an interesting place for foreign investment?

• Removing bottlenecks to trade and agriculture: What could the opportunity look like for Africa?
• Balancing food security and population growth: How to make fertilizer production economically viable?
• Nairobi Declaration: How are the public and private sector looking to work together to support action plans? What progress has been made and what more is needed?

• Tariffs and non-tariff barriers: To what extent is Africa being affected by global geopolitics? What do policies like the CBAM and EU Green Deal mean for Africa?
• How to improve value chains: Investments and infrastructure development and harmonisation of trading systems?
• What are some of the ways in which governments can work to increase access to fertilizers within Africa?

• Overseas investments and supply shifts for phosphates
• Investments into Egypt, changes in Ethiopia
• Junior rock miners and phosphate supply diversification

• Where are exports and imports?
• Where are key countries importing from?
• What is driving market trends?
  
  

• What role does the private sector have to play in action plans? What investments have been made so far?
• Local production of fertilizers and feedstock utilisation. Offshore gas reserves: How are countries ramping up local consumption to protect against global shocks?
• Case studies: Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Nigeria

• Funding mechanisms available across the continent: What has worked and what hasn’t? How do they compare across the continent?
• Subsidies in East Africa: How can governments support farmers whilst fostering competition to enable a commercial and trading market
• What are some of the different approaches to subsidies being taken across Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, and Zambia?
  
  

• Gaining visibility: A cost comparison between corridors: Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe. What options are available and how do they compare?
• What are the main risks to be aware of over choice of ports?
• What is the current status of delays and how does that affect the cost of the final product? What is the impact on costing and availability of fertilizers?

• Infrastructure development and how efficiency can be increased across ports?
• Who’s investing and where? Why is this important for African fertilizer markets?
• Case study: Tanzania: DP World – what infrastructure developments are taking place to improve? Expansions in Dar es Salaam