In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer … increased both the quantity of fertilizer they used on their plots and complementary inputs such as herbicides and hired labor … level of output, we find no evidence that profits increased. Our results suggest that fertilizer's impact on profits is …

While many developing-country policymakers see heavy fertilizer subsidies as critical to raising agricultural … politicized, inefficient distribution of fertilizer supply. We model farmers as facing small fixed costs of purchasing fertilizer … patient, such farmers may procrastinate, postponing fertilizer purchases until later periods, when they may be too impatient …

with taking up and following through with a new technology: a tree species that provides private fertilizer benefits to …

Since independence a quiet revolution has taken place in maize production in the Sahel with Mali increasing production … more than ten-fold and yields going up ~2% a year. This research work uses farm level panel data from southern Mali's maize … increased fertilizer use has driven much of the productivity growth rather than the adoption of improvements in seeds and …

-scale randomized field experiments in four countries: India, Indonesia, Mali, and Tanzania. Health promotion works through a number of …

randomized evaluation in Mali, we find improvements in food security, consumption smoothing, and buffer stock savings. Although …