Promoting Fertilizer Use in Africa: Current Issues and Empirical Evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya

It is generally agreed that increasing agricultural productivity is critical to stimulating the rate of economic growth in Africa. There are many important and often complementary determinants of agricultural productivity. In this brief and the full paper it draws from, the focus is on fertilizer and improved seed, without intending to imply that they are the only or most significant productivity determinants.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Minde, Isaac J. ; Jayne, Thomas S. ; Crawford, Eric W. ; Ariga, Joshua ; Jones, Govereh
Institutions:	Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University
Subject:	fertilizer \| Africa \| Malawi \| Zambia \| Kenya \| Crop Production/Industries \| Food Security and Poverty

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Food Security International Development Policy Syntheses.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Department of Agricultural Economics>Food Security International Development Policy Syntheses Number 54509
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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