Returns to fertilizer use: does it pay enough? Some new evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Estelle Koussoubé & Céline Nauges, 2017. "Returns to fertiliser use: Does it pay enough? Some new evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 44(2), pages 183-210.
- Koussoubé, Estelle & Nauges, Céline, 2016. "Returns to fertilizer use: does it pay enough? Some new evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa," TSE Working Papers 16-669, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
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Keywords
Burkina Faso; fertilizers; maize yield; subsidization program; technology adoption.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
- Q33 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Resource Booms (Dutch Disease)
- Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
- Q16 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - R&D; Agricultural Technology; Biofuels; Agricultural Extension Services
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2015-05-02 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2015-05-02 (Development)
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