This paper estimates the profitability of inorganic fertilizer use in maize production in Malawi. It employs a two-wave, nationally representative panel of data on smallholder households and plots to...
This paper addresses the question of whether farm input subsidy programs should be targeted at non-poor farmers instead of poor farmers, using a two-wave, nationally representative panel data from Malawi...
In May 2021, Sri Lanka’s government imposed an abrupt ban on chemical fertilizer imports. This paper leverages this natural experiment to quantify the costs of a lack of access to fertilizer...
Growing global concerns over climate change are putting an increasing focus on sustainability. This report is part of an occasional series on sustainability in industry, which examines the opportunities ...
This report discusses the readout from World Bank Group President David Malpass’s meeting at the at the High-Level event on access to grains and fertilizers in Africa during UNGA 77. The global...
Myanmar’s international trade increased between April and September 2022, compared with the six months to March 2022 and the six months to September 2021. Garment exports drove an overall increase...
Cashew is an important crop for farmers in Mozambique, with 1.3 million households growing cashew and a total of 6.5 million people deriving their livelihoods in-part from cashew. One of the technologies...
Understanding the determinants of agricultural productivity requires accurate measurement of crop output and yield. In smallholder production systems across low- and middle-income countries, crop yields...
Adoption of non-labor agricultural inputs, including pesticides and mineral fertilizers, remains low among small-scale farmers in many low-income countries. Accurate measurement of the quality of these ...
These remarks were delivered by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the Development Committee at 2022 Spring Meetings on April 22, 2022. In the case of Ukraine, the World Bank Group is doing...
In most of Sub-Saharan Africa, agricultural extension models have become more decentralized and participatory and thus rely on effective farmer-to-farmer learning, while increasingly including nontraditional...
In most of Sub-Saharan Africa, agricultural extension models have become more decentralized and participatory and thus, rely on effective farmer-to-farmer learning, while increasingly including non-traditional...