service providers on agricultural technology adoption. The results suggest that access to institutional finance has …Financial cooperatives and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are the two major sources of rural finance in Ethiopia …

Agricultural research and development has stimulated enormous increases in agricultural productivity in the twentieth … century. Now, in response to common pressures, countries the world over are changing how they manage and pay for agricultural … R&D. Paying for Agricultural Productivity reviews agricultural R&D policy in Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand …

) analyze the demand for agricultural credit by farmers and highlight the key determinants of this demand, (3) ascertain the … policy measures to address the problem of agricultural credit rationing and enhance the demand for credit. The study employs …

literature is still scant as to which products are the most effective. In order to inform gender targeting of rural finance … male and female farmers who are offered index-based agricultural insurance with those who are offered a variety of savings … instruments. We found that female farm managers were less likely to purchase agricultural insurance and more likely to invest in …

Weather-related production risks remain one of the most serious constraints to agricultural production in much of the …