community level. -- household productivity ; ecological sanitation ; UDDT ; Mali ; fertilizer ; matching …In many parts of the world, soils poor in nutrients are farmed with little addition of fertilizer, further depleting … sanitation and at recycling nutrients as fertilizer. This human fertilizer may act as a substitute for artificial fertilizers …

Intensified use of agricultural inputs, particularly fertilizer, is a possible route to improved agricultural …

We use a field experiment in Bangladesh to test if two types of variety-specific fertilizer recommendations …---government provided, community-level recommendations and plot-specific recommendations based on individual soil tests---affect fertilizer … use, yield, and profits. Treatment farmers do not change their fertilizer application behavior in response to either …

finds that fertilizer consumption increased by 21% in response to the intervention. …

quasiexperimental approach (Propensity Score Matching), this study estimates the impact of receiving an agricultural input donation on …

finds that fertilizer consumption increased by 21% in response to the intervention. …

using organic inputs on a larger scale. We approximate organic inputs with crop combinations and livestock, and use matching … with livestock and chemical fertilizer, is shown to be statistically similar to productivity of fertilized maize mono …

fertilizer use reduces much more in drought-prone areas than in less drought-prone areas during growing seasons. I also find that … purposively reduce farm investments, including yield-enhancing technology such as chemical fertilizer, hence worsening adverse …