Improving the targeting of fertilizer subsidy programs in Africa south of the Sahara: Perspectives from the Ghanaian experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Improving the targeting of fertilizer subsidy programs in Africa south of the Sahara: Perspectives from the Ghanaian experience write by Houssou, Nazaire. This book was released on 2017-03-17. Improving the targeting of fertilizer subsidy programs in Africa south of the Sahara: Perspectives from the Ghanaian experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper assesses whether fertilizer subsidy programs can be better targeted to resource-poor farmers using the case of Ghana and proxy means test approaches. Past fertilizer subsidy programs in the country have not been particularly targeted to the poor, even as targeting poor and smallholder farmers has become key in the program implementation guidelines. As a result, many poor farmers have not benefited from past programs. Our results show that targeting approaches based on proxy means tests that use the correlates of poverty to select beneficiary farmers can potentially improve the poverty outreach and costeffectiveness of Ghana’s fertilizer subsidy programs. Therefore, we propose that the proxy means test approach should be considered for implementing Ghana’s fertilizer subsidy programs, first in a pilot project involving a few communities, and later, if found successful, in a full-scale program.
Can Better Targeting Improve the Effectiveness of Ghana's Fertilizer Subsidy Program? Lessons from Ghana and Other Countries in Africa South of the Sahara
Can Better Targeting Improve the Effectiveness of Ghana's Fertilizer Subsidy Program? Lessons from Ghana and Other Countries in Africa South of the Sahara - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Can Better Targeting Improve the Effectiveness of Ghana's Fertilizer Subsidy Program? Lessons from Ghana and Other Countries in Africa South of the Sahara write by Nazaire Houssou. This book was released on 2017. Can Better Targeting Improve the Effectiveness of Ghana's Fertilizer Subsidy Program? Lessons from Ghana and Other Countries in Africa South of the Sahara available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite improvements to the implementation regime of Ghana's fertilizer subsidy program, this paper shows that considerable challenges remain in ensuring that the subsidy is targeted to farmers who need fertilizer the most. Currently, larger-scale and wealthier farmers are the main beneficiaries of subsidized fertilizer even though the stated goal is to target smallholder farmers with fertilizer subsidies. The experience of other African countries suggests that the effectiveness of fertilizer subsidies can improve with effective targeting of resource-poor smallholders. However, targeting smallholder farmers entails significant transaction costs and may even be infeasible in some cases. Faced with such challenges, Ghanaian policy makers must ponder the question of how to improve the targeting of input subsidy programs in the country. Further research is needed to identify more cost-effective approaches for achieving the goal of targeting.
Can better targeting improve the effectiveness of Ghana's Fertilizer Subsidy Program?
Can better targeting improve the effectiveness of Ghana's Fertilizer Subsidy Program? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Can better targeting improve the effectiveness of Ghana's Fertilizer Subsidy Program? write by Houssou, Nazaire. This book was released on 2017-02-10. Can better targeting improve the effectiveness of Ghana's Fertilizer Subsidy Program? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite improvements to the implementation regime of Ghana’s fertilizer subsidy program, this paper shows that considerable challenges remain in ensuring that the subsidy is targeted to farmers who need fertilizer the most. Currently, larger-scale and wealthier farmers are the main beneficiaries of subsidized fertilizer even though the stated goal is to target smallholder farmers with fertilizer subsidies. The experience of other African countries suggests that the effectiveness of fertilizer subsidies can improve with effective targeting of resource-poor smallholders. However, targeting smallholder farmers entails significant transaction costs and may even be infeasible in some cases. Faced with such challenges, Ghanaian policy makers must ponder the question of how to improve the targeting of input subsidy programs in the country. Further research is needed to identify more cost-effective approaches for achieving the goal of targeting.
Spillover Effects of Targeted Subsidies
Spillover Effects of Targeted Subsidies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spillover Effects of Targeted Subsidies write by Lenis Saweda Liverpool-Tasie. This book was released on 2013-04-05. Spillover Effects of Targeted Subsidies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Though there is increasing evidence of the availability and potential of new agricultural technologies in Africa south of the Sahara, effective demand for them is still low. A recent refocus on increasing farmers use of modern technologies such as improved seed and chemical fertilizer has led to a resurgence of input subsidies for these products in many developing countries. One popular mechanism currently in use is input vouchers. Targeted input vouchers are intended to simultaneously improve the targeting of subsidies and develop demand in private markets. While there is growing evidence of the impact of targeted subsidies on private input demand, as far as we are aware no empirical studies have examined the spillover effects of targeted subsidies for just one input on the use of other complementary inputs with which there is low substitutability. Consequently, this study begins to fill this gap by exploring the effect of increasing access to subsidized fertilizer on farmers use of improved seed in Nigeria. Using a control function approach within a limited dependent variable framework, we explore the effect of receiving subsidized fertilizer on a farmers likelihood of using improved seed. The study finds evidence that increased access to subsidized fertilizer increased the likelihood of farmers using improved seed in Kano, Nigeria. This indicates that farmers are re-optimizing their use of other inputs in response to increasing availability of one input. This complicates the ability to isolate the returns to any one input when evaluating programs targeted at just one input. Our results were robust to various model specifications and indicate that there is a clear link between farmers use of improved seed and fertilizer in Kano, which could be leveraged in the development of input subsidy programs across Africa south of the Sahara.
Building resilience for food systems in postwar communities
Building resilience for food systems in postwar communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building resilience for food systems in postwar communities write by Pal, Chandrashri. This book was released on 2017-05-19. Building resilience for food systems in postwar communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prolonged civil wars can have long-lasting adverse effects on food systems, leading to poverty and food insecurity. Overcoming food insecurity and land inequality is particularly difficult because of the highly politicized nature of conflict. This paper builds on the existing literature on food sovereignty to ensure sustainable livelihoods and community ownership of a resilient food system. We identify components of community food security to be strengthened in a post war reconstruction context. We study the impacts of the civil war on food and land administration systems, farmer struggles and current transitional justice process in relation to community food security in the Northern and Eastern Provinces in Sri Lanka and identify the technological, institutional, organizational, and infrastructural setbacks caused by conflict. It explores how such setbacks could be rectified and a resilient food system could be built in the postwar scenario.
