Production subsidy and price support policies for food self-sufficiency in Africa

Abstract

In the final analysis, reducing fertilizer subsidies in Indonesia is a question of enlightened economic foresight, the right reform tiding (e.g., following a good production year), and ability to overcome the rent-seeking behavior of vested interest groups and, most importantly, an updated political consensus, on the role of fertilizer subsidies to the fortunes of the rural elite and to the flash-point of the urban wage earners.