Diante destes argumentos, a questão ultimamente tem sido se subsídios inteligentes e temporários podem contribuir para induzir a mudança tecnológica e reduzir a pobreza em áreas de baixa produtividade agrícola, como o centro de Moçambique.

Given these results and the learning that followed from them, it is perhaps not surprising that farmers continued to utilize fertilizers well after the expiration of the short-term subsidy experiment.

Beneficiaries of the agro-input subsidy and the matched savings intervention who were among the poorest increased their planning horizon as a result of their improved economic prospects.

At a fundamental level, this BASIS project will be able to show the impact that subsidizing fertilizer has on yields, and subsequently household expenditures and general wellbeing.

Providing farmers with fertilizer or improved seed varieties can increased yields, leading to higher incomes and a stable or growing asset portfolio for the household. At the request of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Mozambique’s Ministry of Agriculture, IFDC is implementing such a subsidy program in Mozambique.