Resource Materials - Zambia Agricultural Fertilizer Support Programme Study Tour.
Gaining Insights from On-going Reforms in Malawi, Kenya and Tanzania.
MACO/ACF/FSRP
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Study Tour Orientation
- Description of Activities
- Participant List/Contact Information
- Program Schedule
- Jan 14-17 Kenya; Jan 18-21 Tanzania; Jan 22-24 Malawi
Cross-Country Materials
- Policy Briefs
- Fertilizer Subsidies and Sustainable Agricultural Growth in Africa: Current Issues and Empirical Evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya. MSU Policy Synthesis #83, Oct 2008.
- The Potential of Using an Input Voucher System to Integrate the Commercial and Noncommercial Input Distribution Systems in the Southern African Development Community. FANRPAN Policy Brief Series 11/07 November 2007
- New Approaches to Input Subsidies World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development
- The Agro-Dealer Development Programme. AGRA
- Restoring Soil Health in Africa. AGRA
- Papers
- Promoting Fertilizer Use in Africa: Current Issues and Empirical Evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya. Isaac Minde, T.S. Jayne, Eric Crawford, Joshua Ariga, and Jones Govereh. ReSAKSS Working Paper No. 13. November 2008.
- News Reports
- Addressing Africa's Food Crisis from the Ground Up. World Agroforestry Centre. May 2008
- Making fertilizer subsidies work long term is tough. Vijaya Ramachandran and Peter Timmer. Dec2007
- Peter Mcpherson and Rudy Rabbinge: "Fertilizer Subsidies Without Basic Infrastructure, Technology and Training will Leave Africa Just One Season Away from the Next Food Crisis" Abuja, Nigeria.13 June 2006
- Policy frameworks for increasing soil fertility in Africa: debating the alternatives A Future Agricultures Consortium debate
- Policy frameworks for increasing soil fertility in Africa: A very partial overview of the debate. Ian Scoones, September 18 2008
- Tool Kits
- WB Fertilizer Toolkit: http://www.worldbank.org/afr/fertilizer_tk/
Malawi Materials
- Policy Briefs
- Towards 'smart' subsidies in agriculture? Lessons from recent experience in Malawi. Andrew Dorward, Ephraim Chirwa, Duncan Boughton, Eric Crawford, Thom Jayne, Rachel Slater, Valerie Kelly and Maxton Tsoka. Natural Resource Perspectives. ODI. September 2008
- Subsidised fertilizer: Two views . LEISA Magazine. 3 Sept 2008
- Potential of Input Vouchers as a Mechanism for Integrating the Non-Commercial and Commercial Input Markets: The Case of Malawi. Final Report. Richard N. Kachule and Thabbie M.S. Chilongo. FANRPAN Report 2007/002. October 2007.
- Papers
- Evaluation of the 2006/7 Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme, Malawi. Final Report. School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Wadonda Consult, Michigan State University (MSU), Overseas Development Institute (ODI). March 2008.
- Social Analysis of Malawi's Maize Marketing Reforms. Final version: December 22, 2008. Report for the World Bank, Malawi by T. S. Jayne, Julius Mangisoni, and Nicholas Sitko
- Presentations
- Evaluation of the 2006/7 Agricultural Input Supply Programme. Malawi Report conducted for the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security by School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), Wadonda Consult ODI, Michigan State University (MSU). Lilongwe March 2008.
- Malawi’s Maize Marketing System: A Rapid Appraisal Study. By T.S. Jayne, Julius Mangisoni, Nicholas Sitko for discussion at World Bank Maize Stakeholders Seminar, Lilongwe, Malawi, December 8, 2008
- News Reports
- Fertilizer subsidy program fails to benefit the poor, Mutharika admits. Nyasa Times, Malawi. Aug 2008
- Kaliati appeal for opposition help on fertilizer subsidy Nyasa Times, Malawi. 28 September, 2008
- Committee says 1.5 million face food shortage. NATION. 10/7/2008
- Agra gives US$ 4.3 m for Malawi's agro dealers. The Daily Times. 14 December 2007.
Kenya Materials
- Policy Briefs
- Can The Market Deliver? Lessons From Kenya’s Rising Use Of Fertilizer Following Liberalization. Joshua Ariga and T.S. Jayne. July 2006. KePB 7.
- Papers
- Trends and Patterns in Fertilizer Use by Smallholder Farmers in Kenya, 1997-2007. Joshua Ariga, T.S. Jayne, Betty Kibaara, and J.K. Nyoro. Draft For Review Working Paper XX/2008. October 2008
- How High Are Rates of Return to Fertilizer? Evidence from Field Experiments in Kenya. Duflo, Esther, Michael Kremer, and Jonathan Robinson. 2008. AER 98(2):482-488. ( Not downloadable here due to AER property right )
- Presentations
- News Reports
- KENYA: New marketing networks planned to plug missing markets. December 14, 2007
- Japan grants Kenya Kshs 440 million. MBendi. Sept 2008
- Government subsidized fertilizer available next month. Kenya Broadcasting Corporation. Sept 2008
- Now Maize Exports Banned. The Nation (Nairobi). 14 October 2008
- Relief Over Low Fertiliser Cost. The Nation (Nairobi). 15 October 2008
Tanzania Materials
- Policy Briefs
- Update on the Tanzania Agriculture Input Partnership (TAIP) . Agricultural Council of Tanzania. 1 Dec 2007.
- Papers
- Tanzania Agricultural Input Partnership. A Strategy for Partnership. Agricultural Council of Tanzania. Draft of 22.9.07
- A Partnership to Support the Development of the Fertliser Supply Chain in Tanzania. Program Concept and Process Paper. Draft
- News Reports
Zambia Fertilizer Materials
- Policy Briefs
- MS Zambia Newsletter October 2008 - Fertilizer support is a subsidy disaster by Michael Muleba, Executive Director, Farmers Organization Support Program (FOSUP)
- MS Zambia Newsletter October 2008 - Fertilizer support is a subsidy disaster by Michael Muleba, Executive Director, Farmers Organization Support Program (FOSUP)
- Papers
- Zambia - Impact Assessment of the Fertilizer Support Program: Analysis of Effectiveness and Efficiency. World Bank Report No. 54864. June 9, 1 2010.
- Agricultural Consultative Forum (ACF) Advisory Note on proposed reforms for the Zambian Fertilizer Support Programme. 27 Feb, 2009
- Xu, Z, Burke, W. J., Jayne, T.S., and J. Govereh. 2009. Do Input Subsidy Programs 'Crowd in' or 'Crowd out' Commercial Market Development? Modeling Fertilizer Demand in a Two-Channel Marketing System. Agricultural Economics 40 (2009): 79-94.
- Xu, Z, Z, Guan, T.S. Jayne, and R. Black. 2009. Factors Influencing the Profitability of Fertilizer Use on Maize in Zambia. Agricultural Economics, Volume 40 (4): 437–446.
- Promoting Fertilizer Use in Africa: Current Issues and Empirical Evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya. Isaac Minde, T.S. Jayne, Eric Crawford, Joshua Ariga. ReSAKSS Working Paper No. 13. November 2008.
- FSP_Internal_Evauation_2008
- Drawing on the experiences of the 2007/08 agricultural season. John M Kasanga. Position Paper on the Fertilizer Support Programme (FSP). The Conservation Farming Unit.April 2008
- Chipata District Farmers Report on the Findings on the 2007-8 Fertilizer Support Program
- Targeting Small Scale Farmers in the Implementation of Zambia's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). An Assessment of the Implementation and Effectiveness of the Fertilizer Support Programme.Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR). Zambia May 2005
- Why small-scale Maize and Cotton yields in Zambia are so low. Conservation Farming Unit
- Faidherbia albida - The ultimate solution for Small-scale Maize production. Conservation Farming Unit
- Framework and Initial Analyses of Fertilizer Profitability in Maize and Cotton in Zambia. C. Donovan, M. Damaseke, J. Govereh, and D. Simumba. ZamPB #4. 2002.
- Developments in Fertilizer Marketing in Zambia: Commercial Trading, Government Programs and the Smallholder Farmer. J. Govereh, T.S. Jayne, J.J. Nijhoff, J.J. Shawa, H. Haantuba, A. Belemu, E. Ngulube, B. Zulu, and A.K. Banda. ZamPB # 3. 2002.
- Presentations
- Empirical Information on Smallholder Maize Production and Fertilizer Use In Zambia. Presentation at Fertilizer Support Programme Evaluation Kick-Off Workshop. Protea Safari Lodge, Zambia. June 25-26, 2008
- Impact Assessment Zambia Fertilizer Support Program (FSP Briefing on Main Results World Bank Country Office, Lusaka. 23 March 2009.
- Fertiliser Support Programme: Implementation Manual for the S008/2009 Farming Season. MACO
- News Reports
Zambia Smallholder Material
- Presentations
- Targeting Challenges : Using Zambian Rural Household Data Sets to Inform The Process of Categorisation of Resource Poor Smallholder Farmers. By the Food Security Research Project, Kafue Gorge ACF Sponsored Workshop, Aug 20-22, 2008.