Major Fertilizer Company Accused of Ripping Off Farmers (Independent)

IFPRI research is at the center of a major debate over fertilizer price increases in Ireland, where the Irish Farmers’ Association argues that farmers are being ripped off. Ireland’s Independent newspaper reported that an IFPRI study by Senior Research Fellows Antoine Bouet and David Laborde Debucquet which makes the case that a failure of competition in the European fertilizer market imposes additional costs of a billion euros per year to farmers.