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 ()

No 260042, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Briefs from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP)

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; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Political Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 5
Date: 2016-02-02
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.260042

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