increase its maize exports to other countries. If global maize production is lower than usual due to supply shocks in major … exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more maize at higher prices, even if it also experiences below … partners' usual import sources. Future climate predictions suggest that some of Tanzania's trading partners will experience …

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

role of risk and uncertainty, this paper empirically estimates the profitability of fertilizer use for maize production in …Inorganic fertilizer use across Sub-Saharan Africa is generally considered to be low. Yet, this belief is predicated on … 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 … improved technologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yet …

public spending on fertilizer subsidies had the opposite effect. The composition of spending patterns in Indonesia over the …This paper analyzes the trends and evolution of public spending in the agriculture sector in Indonesia, as well as the … findings about the impact of overall public spending on growth, with a particular focus on Indonesia, followed by an analysis …

Using the Agricultural Census 2003 and the Rice Household Survey 2008 for Indonesia, this paper analyzes the … distribution of benefits from fertilizer subsidies and their impact on rice production. The findings suggest that most farmers … benefit from fertilizer subsidies; however, the 40 percent largest farmers capture up to 60 percent of the subsidy. The …

inverse scale-productivity relationship is highly sensitive to how plot-level maize production, hence yield (production … divided by GPS-based plot area), is measured. Although farmer-reported production-based plot-level maize yield regressions … consistently lend support to the inverse scale-productivity relationship, the comparable regressions estimated with maize yields …

of the maize seed industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. This summary takes a circumspect view of technical change in maize … production. Adoption of improved seed has continued to rise gradually, now representing an estimated 44 percent of maize area in … Eastern and Southern Africa (outside South Africa), and 60 percent of maize area in West and Central Africa. Use of fertilizer …

indicative examples of how resource-management technologies can supplement seed-fertilizer technologies to speed an African Green … and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using examples from farmers' maize and rice fields, and comparisons with Asia …

accuracy of Sentinel-2 imagery-based, remotely-sensed plot-level maize yields with respect to ground-based measures relying on …