Excessive food price variability early warning system: Incorporating fertilizer prices

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dc.creatorYao, Feng
dc.creatorHernandez, Manuel A.
dc.date2025-04-28
dc.date2025-04-28T20:51:36Z
dc.date2025-04-28T20:51:36Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:26:15Z
dc.descriptionLow adoption of improved land management practices, including fertilizer use, is one of the main factors for low agricultural productivity in many developing countries. Rising agricultural productivity in many countries has been accompanied by greater fertilizer use. For example, sub-Saharan African countries, characterized by low agricultural productivity, have a very low fertilizer application rate, averaging 10 kilograms per hectare (kg/ha) of nutrients of arable land, compared to 288 kg/ha in a high-income country (Hernandez and Torero, 2011). Considering the essential role that agriculture plays in the rural economy of many developing countries, many policies have been implemented to encourage sustainable fertilizer adoption. The effectiveness of different mechanisms remains though a topic of discussion. Hernandez and Torero (2013) and Hernandez and Torero (2018), for instance, note that fertilizer prices are generally higher in more concentrated markets at the global and local level. The authors argue that better understanding the dynamics of fertilizer prices in international markets can help in designing policies that promote sustainable fertilizer use in developing countries, which are increasingly dependent on imported fertilizer.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174361
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/104345
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143600
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1080/07474938.2014.956612
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0266466616000517
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceYao, Feng; and Hernandez, Manuel A. 2025. Excessive food price variability early warning system: Incorporating fertilizer prices. IFPRI Project Note April 2025. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174361
dc.subjectfood prices
dc.subjectfertilizers
dc.subjectagricultural productivity
dc.subjectprices
dc.subjectshock
dc.subjectcommodities
dc.titleExcessive food price variability early warning system: Incorporating fertilizer prices
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