This paper focuses on the difficulties inherent in the prudent management of growth of microfinance organizations and on potential limits to the increased efficiency, profitability, and sustainability expected from growth and large size. The paper addresses both positive and negative...

This article is the first working paper of the Researching Center for Agricultural Sciences and Applied Economic. It is a contribution for the INTA Nicaragua.

The Mexican honey industry is composed by around of 40,000 honey producers with 2 millionof beehives. It has been the result that Mexico is the fourth producer and exporter in the world.In the year 2004, Delicias had 14,115 beehives which produced 443.3 tons of honey with avalue of 14.8 millions...

In the North-Central Mexico, the main production area of beans in the country, a study wasconducted during 2008-2009, whose objectives were to characterize the producers, determinethe extent of adoption and to assess the impact of using the bean variety “Pinto Saltillo”,generated by INIFAP....