The theory of equivalent variance postulates that, cash transfers are preferred over material subsidies as overall … subsidy policy by converting the material fertilizer subsidy in to a cash transfer. However this policy reform has received … selected for this purpose. The findings of this study indicate that fertilizer is a significant determinant of the paddy output …

Chemical Fertilizer shortage and misallocation has been a perennial problem that has fraught the agricultural sector of … Bangladesh. Accurate forecasting of fertilizer demand can be a significant boon that can greatly emend the current scenario in … regards to fertilizer shortage. Unfortunately government at present has no such forecasting model to tackle such issue. The …

This paper assesses whether fertilizer subsidy programs can be better targeted to resource-poor farmers using the case … of Ghana and proxy means test approaches. Past fertilizer subsidy programs in the country have not been particularly … outreach and cost effectiveness of Ghana's fertilizer subsidy programs. Therefore, we propose that the proxy means test …

extensive agricultural system of Côte d'Ivoire, which exploits soil fertility by harnessing large virgin forest areas, instead …

such as droughts can lower the opportunity cost of having children, and raise fertility. Using longitudinal household data … from Madagascar, we estimate the causal effect of drought occurrences on fertility, and explore the nature of potential …. Analyzing the mechanism, we find that droughts have no effect on common underlying factors of high fertility such as marriage …