; interviews with key participants in fertilizer importation and marketing in Uganda; and two surveys — one with farmers and the … specific to fertilizer but are implicated in broad efforts for increased economic growth in Uganda. However, the government of … Uganda should undertake several fertilizer-specific initiatives to enhance farmer uptake: Overcome information constraints …

There has been an increase in fertilizer use among farmers in the semi-arid Tigray region of Ethiopia during 2006 …-2015. Our household panel data covering nine years show that the average fertilizer adoption rate had increased from about 31 …% of plots in 2006 to almost 67% in 2015. Likewise, fertilizer use intensity increased from 28.6 kg/ha in 2006 to 88.5 kg …

this regard. However, given the problematic economics of fertilizer use by smallholders in Mozambique, the prospects for …, government can take two fertilizer-specific initiatives to accelerate use of fertilizer in Mozambique by smallholders: 1 …Inorganic fertilizer is one of a handful of agricultural technologies that have immense potential for raising the …

Inorganic fertilizer is one of a handful of agricultural technologies that have immense potential for raising the … productivity of poor smallholders, enabling them to increase income, accumulate assets, and set themselves economically on a … pathway out of poverty. This paper presents the results of a broad study of fertilizer supply to smallholder farmers in …

Despite describing a decline in soil fertility, Northern Ghanaian smallholders have not universally adopted use of …