Fertilizer Subsidies—Which Way Forward?
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An IFDC/FAI Report Edited by Jikun Huang, Ashok Gulati, and Ian Gregory February 2017 i Preface Fertilizer subsidies in developing countries have been increasingly common policy interventions in recent years to increase supply and use of fertilizer and thus stimulate agricultural output and farmer i ncome. The volatility of global food and fertilizer prices in 2007 and 2008 provided a stimulus for this resurgence in fertilizer subsidies. The multiple objectives and the rapid growth in the financial burden of subsidies and their share of the total support to agriculture have brought into question whether fertilizer subsidies are an appropriate policy...