While the economic returns to using chemical fertilizer in Africa can be large, application rates are low. This study … that while fertilizer markets are not altogether missing in rural Ethiopia, high transport costs, unfavorable climate … promote or impede effective fertilizer markets differs among locations, making it difficult to find a single production …

to use more fertilizer has been a key tactic. Closing the productivity gap between male and female farmers has been … another avenue toward achieving the same goal. The results in this paper suggest the two are related. Fertilizer use and maize …

Inorganic fertilizer use across Sub-Saharan Africa is generally considered to be low. Yet, this belief is predicated on … role of risk and uncertainty, this paper empirically estimates the profitability of fertilizer use for maize production in … Nigeria. The analysis finds that inorganic fertilizer use in Nigeria is not as low as conventional wisdom suggests. Low …

following several years of high food prices, concerted policy efforts to intensify fertilizer and hybrid seed use, and increased …

, but also the possibly low consumption outcomes when harvests fail, discourage the application of fertilizer. The lack of …