Agricultural credit and insurance
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- Insurance for extreme drought hazards in Chilean index-based drought programmes
- ( K. Baez;E. Iglesias / AgEcon Search , 2011)
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The vulnerability of grazing livestock systems with close dependence on silvo-pastoral systems highlights the need for tools to evaluate and mitigate the adverse impacts of drought. The aim of this...
- Many Nepali mid-hills farmers practice agricultural intensification, but improved extension programmes and credit provision are needed to improve adoption
- ( N. Raut;B.K. Sitaula;A. Vatn / Canadian Center of Science and Education , 2011)
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The problems encountered by Nepalese farmers in the adoption of agricultural intensification (AI), and the constraints and complexities of sustainable AI are not thoroughly understood. This study a...
- Why Chinese farmers choose informal financial associations more than formal financial institutions
- ( Y. Yuan;Y. Hu;P. Gao / AgEcon Search , 2011)
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Informal credit markets are very active in China. This paper investigates farmers' borrowings in China from both formal and informal sources with higher/lower interest, by looking into both demand ...
- Rural Kenyans’ awareness of phone-based banking services is high, but usage is low
- ( O.K. Kirui;J.J. Okello;R.A. Nyikal / AgEcon Search , 2010)
- Smallholder farmer access to agricultural finance has been a major constraint to agricultural commercialisation in developing countries, yet ICT revolution in Africa has brought an opportunity to ease...
- Practical guide to improving access to finance in rural areas
- ( T. de Klerk / Network Learning , 2009)
- Rural finance refers to financial services such as savings, lending, insurance and remittance services provided by a variety of actors. These actors can be friends, relatives, shopkeepers, traders, mo...
- Lack of credit drives India's agrarian distress
- ( D Mishra / Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi , 2006)
- Based a survey conducted in three villages in the Indian state of Orissa, this article suggests that apart from the production failures and risks encountered in the increasingly volatile output market...
Farmer Participatory Research in Northern Tanzania: the FARM-Africa model
- ( R. Ewbank;A. Kasindei;F. Kimaro;S. Slaa / Farm Africa , 2007)
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This document reviews the demand-led participatory model of farmer research and extension implemented by FARM-Africa Tanzania in their Babati Rural Development Research project (2000–200...
- Recommendations for improving horticultural marketing in Ethiopia
- ( B. Emana; H. Gebremedhin / Drylands Coordination Group, Norway , 2007)
- What are the major opportunities and constraints to improving horticultural production and . marketing in Ethopia? Using questionnaire-evidence and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools, this stu...
- Without appropriate credit services, participation in global markets can lead to greater debt and impoverishment
- ( R.M. Aggarwal / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) , 2006)
- It is often argued that an important reason why globalisation may lead to GDP growth but fail to reduce poverty is because the poor are unable to participate in new market opportunities and are thus m...
- Smallholder tobacco farmers in Tanzania
- ( D. Rweyemamu; M. Kimaro / Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania , 2006)
- Tobacco is one of Tanzania’s most important agricultural export crops as well as being an important source of employment and income in rural areas. However, this study finds that gross inefficiencies ...
