Input subsidy programs in sub-Saharan Africa: a synthesis of recent evidence

By T. Jayne, Shahid Rashid. 2013

481 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. C. Ragasa
2. A. Chapoto
3. T. Jayne
4. N. Mason
5. A. Dorward
6. W. Burke
7. J. Ariga
8. B. Minten

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. T. Jayne
2. N. Mason
3. C. Ragasa
4. A. Dorward
5. A. Chapoto
6. W. Burke
7. J. Ariga
8. Derek Headey

In Sociology and Political Science

1. C. Ragasa
2. A. Chapoto
3. Alexander J. Stein
4. A. Dorward
5. Derek Headey
6. B. Minten
7. Neil Dawson
8. Adrian Martin

Citations in the corpus

• Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications of Imposed Innovation for the Wellbeing of Rural Smallholders (2016, background): “As a result of this analysis, policies for a Green Revolution in Africa have become heavily supported by donors (Jayne & Rashid, 2013; Sanchez, Denning, & Nziguheba, 2009).”
• Understanding the agricultural input landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : recent plot, household, and community-level evidence (2014, unknown): “As an extension, several governments have recently reinstated or revitalized agricultural input subsidy schemes aimed at promoting access to chemical fertilizers and improved seeds (Minot and Benson 2009) with variable success (Jayne and Rashid 2013).”
• The Economy-wide Impacts and Risks of Malawi's Farm Input Subsidy Program (2014, unknown): “This contrasts with the view, set forth by Jayne and Rashid (2013) and based on partial equilibrium assessments, of fertilizer subsidy programmes as low potential and grounded fundamentally in political motivations. Our results indicate that the FISP can form a part of a viable development strategy.”
• Agricultural Input Subsidies: The Recent Malawi Experience (2013, background): “Two papers provide substantive new information on or potentially relevant to the FISP (Jayne et al., 2013; Jayne and Rashid, 2013).”
• Adaptation to land constraints: Is Africa different? (2014, background): “fertilizer application and improved seeds, especially in the absence of interventions to improve organic soil matter (Jayne and Rashid, 2013; Marenya and Barrett, 2009).”
• Review: Taking stock of Africa’s second-generation agricultural input subsidy programs (2018, background): “…around 2000, many African governments experienced a relaxation of the constraints on public budgets resulting from the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt forgiveness programs and a shift by international donors from highly conditional aid to direct budget support (Jayne and Rashid, 2013).”
• Zinc-enriched fertilisers as a potential public health intervention in Africa (2015, background): “…deploy fertiliser subsidy schemes (Burkina Faso, Kenya, Ghana, Mali, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia) or which have government control of imports (Ethiopia) as this offers a mechanism for mandating Zn-enrichment of fertilisers (Jayne and Rashid 2013; Wanzala-Mlobela et al. 2013).”
• Agricultural Transformation in Africa? Assessing the Evidence in Ethiopia (2017, background): “3 While researchers have looked at determinants of specific improved technology adoption in Africa such as subsidies (e.g., Jayne & Rashid, 2013), roads (e.g., Minten, Koru, & Stifel, 2013), land constraints (e.g., Jayne, Chamberlin, & Headey, 2014), extension (e.g., Krishnan & Patnam, 2014), and…”
• Limits to Green Revolution in rice in Africa: The case of Ghana (2017, methodology): “We adopt a VCR greater than or equal to 1.5 (following Jayne and Rashid 2013) to reflect the added risk premium intended to accommodate risks and uncertainty faced by the farmers as well as to adjust for unobservable costs associated with fertilizer use.”