The Rewards of an Improved Enabling Environment: How Input Market Reform Helped Kenyan Farmers Raise Their Fertilizer Use By 36%

Megan Sheahan, Joshua Ariga and Thomas Jayne (jayne@msu.edu)

No 234947, Food Security International Development Policy Syntheses from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Abstract: Raising agricultural productivity remains a major challenge in developing countries. Farm productivity is especially low in Sub-Saharan Africa, where fertilizer use lags far behind the rest of the world. Identifying effective strategies for raising fertilizer use in Africa has been a longstanding policy priority. While most of the region has struggled to raise fertilizer use in a sustainable manner, several countries have recorded impressive steady growth in fertilizer use, suggesting that there may be important success stories from which to learn.

Keywords: Agricultural; and; Food; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4
Date: 2016-02
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.234947

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