/FAO-SFI studies on fertilizer profitability in Rwanda; and to incorporate information and comments obtained from participants in the … December 15, 1999, MINAGRI Fertilizer Profitability Workshop conducted to present and validate the preliminary findings of the …

The paper has several specific objectives. First, it identifies how fertilizer marketing costs and the types of … fertilizer subsector in Kenya with a view to identifying organizational and institutional changes that could improve its … performance. Various types of fertilizer supply chains serving farmers in western Kenya are identified, examine the cost structure …

Fertilizer use remains very low in most of Africa despite widespread agreement that much higher use rates are required …-ecological Zone IIA, a relatively high potential zone of Zambia, to determine the profitability of fertilizer use under a range of … within Zone IIA, the maize-fertilizer response rate in the two specific years varied widely across households. The main …

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 examine the correlation between household fertilizer use and …

This report assesses how the recent deregulation of fertilizer prices will affect the profitability of fertilizer use …-effective use of fertilizer to promote productivity growth throughout the food system. …