Input use and output price risks: the case of maize in Burkina Faso

Utilisation d'intrants et risques de prix: le cas du maïs au Burkina Faso

Tristan Le Cotty, Elodie Maitre D'Hotel, Moctar Ndiaye and Sophie Thoyer ()
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Moctar Ndiaye: UG - Université de Guyane
Sophie Thoyer: CEE-M - Centre d'Economie de l'Environnement - Montpellier - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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Abstract: We investigate whether the fluctuations of agricultural output prices may explain the low level of input use in Sub-Saharan Africa. We combine data on local maize prices and data on farmers' fertilizer use over the 2009-2011 period in Burkina-Faso to estimate a panel-tobit model of fertilizer use. We separate the predictable and unpredictable components of maize price fluctuations and find that fertilizer use decreases when maize price fluctuations increase, and more specifically when unpredictable price fluctuations increase.

Keywords: fertilizer use; price risk; maize; intensification; Sub-Saharan Africa; utilisation d’intrants; risques de prix; maïs; Afrique Sub Saharienne (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-06-07
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