Farmer input strategies across Africa under scrutiny
Oct 29, 2021
3 minutes
GLOBAL INSIGHT by Dr Tinashe Kapuya
Large-scale agricultural input subsidies were a prominent feature of agricultural development policies in several African countries between the 1960s and 1980s.
Input subsidies, which are fundamentally a government cash contribution to enable farmers to procure inputs at less than the prevailing market price, played a critical role in expanding access to inputs and ensuring that farmers remained competitive.
Although subsidies were primarily meant to
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