Studies of fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa have been dominated by analyses of economic and market factors having … to do with infrastructure, institutions, and incentives that prevent or foster increased fertilizer demand, largely … ignoring how soil fertility status conditions farmer demand for fertilizer. We apply a switching regression model to data from …

-Saharan Africa with a view to understanding the potential impacts on a range of input markets. A number of different organic nutrient … organic inputs, labor, credit, and fertilizer is explored. We found that there are few direct analyses of these links and …