Agricultural credit and insurance
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- 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...
- Taxation constraining vegetable marketing in Kenya
- ( Institute of Policy Analysis and Research, Kenya , 2007)
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This policy brief outlines some policy constraints in vegetable production and marketing in the remote districts of Kenya. One of the greatest policy constraints is taxation. There are a host of ta...
- 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 ...
- Developing tools for weather-related crop insurance
- ( J. Diaz Nieto / Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia , 2006)
- This report provides tools for the development of crop insurance combined with micro finance to help smallholder farmers break out of the poverty trap. Although insurance is a well-established means t...
- Suicide and agrrian crisis in Maharashtra, India
- ( S. Mishra / Economic and Political Weekly, India , 2006)
- The suicide mortality rate for farmers in the Indian State of Maharashtra has quadrupled in the last decade, according to this research paper. Is agricultural dumping by the United States, declining a...
- People's Participation in Ghana: a post-project study of sustainability (FAO)
- ( People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions , 1999)
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- Effect of group formation on rural women's access to services in Western Province, Zambia (FAO)
- ( People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions , 1999)
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