Too much of a good thing? Evidence that fertilizer subsidies lead to overapplication in Egypt
As part of a national policy to ensure a certain level of food self-sufficiency in strategic crops, the government of Egypt subsidizes nitrogen fertilizer directly by distributing quotas of subsidized fertilizers to farmers and indirectly by subsidizing natural gas used by local fertilizer factories...
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| Format: | Artículo preliminar |
| Language: | Inglés |
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2020
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143783 |
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