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For several reasons, fertilizer subsidies are again popular policy tools. First, there is broad agreement that fertilizer is a critical yet still-underused input for improving productivity and food security in Africa. Second, politicians have felt greater urgency to increase domestic food...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 08/23/11.
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, has been accompanied by calls for direct government action in food markets. This paper reviews how Zambia, Malawi, and … the interests of each and harms consumers and farmers; Malawi and Zambia have persistently fallen into this trap while …
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It is generally agreed that increasing agricultural productivity is critical to stimulating the rate of economic growth in Africa. There are many important and often complementary determinants of agricultural productivity. In this brief and the full paper it draws from, the focus is on...
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National food security in Malawi depends on improving the performance of maize markets. Ensuring that grain is … makers in Malawi: how to keep prices low enough to ensure low income consumers’ access to food while keeping prices high … marketing margins, which shrink the wedge between producer and consumer prices. Moreover, Malawi faces major political and …
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Prepared for the Comesa policy seminar on “Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”, Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010 under the African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)
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This study uses nationwide household panel survey data from 1996/97 to 2006/07 to examine trends in fertilizer use on maize by smallholder maize growers. The paper also compares these findings with fertilizer use rates according to other recent surveys in Kenya to assess comparability. We also...
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and USAID offices in Lilongwe, Malawi. …
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years numerous countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) including Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia … have implemented such programs at substantial cost to government and donor budgets. For example, in 2008 Malawi spent …
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