Arizona was designed, in part, to induce water conservation in irrigated agriculture to sustain economic growth in an arid …

The microfinance industry in Vietnam, particularly those sponsored by nongovernment organisations (NGOs), has … interview process that incorporated various stakeholders including financial donors, NGO-sponsored microfinance institutions …

This paper evaluates the long-term impact of microfinance credit from the intensity of participation in borrowing. We … use a four-round panel data set on 351 farm households that had access to microfinance in northern Ethiopia. Over the … between consecutive periods and see the long-run effects of exposure to microfinance from the intensity of participation …

as well as their expectations on other members' repayment decisions. Exploiting a rich data set of a microfinance program …

and intensity of use of the improved varieties and fertilizer. Access to credit was positively related to adoption and … credit to farmers and also revamp the existing extension service (including privatization in the long term) for efficient …

Over the last decade Portuguese Agricultural Credit Cooperatives (ACCs) have increasingly face survival challenges … performance. Additionally: (a) ACCs with a central ACC agent and merged ACCs hold a weaker credit management and a heavy … weaker credit management and present solvency problems. …

context of modern agriculture, with well defined property rights, agricultural contracts must balance costs and benefits …

preferential) trade integration are compared to assess policy reform priorities. Their coherence with the objective of agriculture …