This paper estimates an equation for fertilizer demand in Brazil, considering time period from 1970 to 2002. Co … econometrics results. Fertilizer demand is inelastic to both price fluctuations and rural credit supplied. These results are … compatible with the international estimates and they also confirm the importance of fertilizer as an input for the Brazilian …

Though input vouchers are being publicized as a mechanism to simultaneously target subsidies and develop demand in … private markets, limited empirical evidence of their effect on private input demand exists. Few empirical studies, if any …, exist on the effect of targeted subsidies on private input demand in Nigeria or West Africa . Consequently this study begins …

impact on crop yield, nonfarm employment opportunity and income distribution among peasant farmers, on increased demand for …