News Can Local Rocks Grow More Crops?

ELSEVIER June 3, 2019

MIT’s Antoine Allanore (DMSE) and Davide Ciceri, previously a postdoc in Allanore’s lab have received an Elsevier Award for a recent article detailing their work to develop local fertilizer in Africa. This J-WAFS funded project delves into the potential of using local resources that contain potassium, such as feldspar, as fertilizer rather than importing foreign fertilizers. The awarded paper addresses ways that new potash-independent fertilizer formulations could help Africa’s agriculture industry achieve self-sufficiency.