The Economics of Fertilizer Subsidies

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Fertilizer and other input subsidies have been a prominent component of agricultural policies in many Asian and African countries since the 1960s. Their economic and political rationale is scrutinized with emphasis on the second generation of targeted input subsidy programs that were scaled up in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) after 2005. The extent to which they full-fill the goal of being 'market smart' is assessed after inspecting the potential for such subsidies in SSA. The new fertilizer subsidy programs do not live up the market smart principles and suffer from severe design and implementation failures. While a clear exit strategy was one of the key principles, this principle has been neglected with the result that most current programs are more 'sticky' than 'smart'. They have only partially achieved the intended impacts and have resulted in a number of unintended negative impacts. Redesign should start from a pilot stage testing basic mechanisms.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-82-7490-273-2
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper ; No. 9/18

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets ; Agricultural Policy; Food Policy ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: Government Policy
• Thema: Fertilizer subsidy ; externality ; market failure ; market smart ; impact ; elite capture

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Holden, Stein T.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS)
• (wo): Ås
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/242770
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ