Showing 1 - 10 of 5,880
management. Farmers are generally not adhering to present-day policy and “keeping their land in good agricultural and … environmental condition”. A range of suggested changes in policy and practice is offered, ranging from educating farmers on erosion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011030620
become organic farmers, and stop using synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides to farm, or they would sell their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012737331
direct payment may increase production and investment by risk-averse farmers via a link between wealth, risk aversion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758974
We study the relation between access to finance and productivity. Our contribution to the literature is a clean identification of a causal effect of access to finance on productivity. Specifically, we exploit an exogenous shift in demand for a product to expose how producers adapt their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709160
random subset of farmers who (endogenously) did not borrow. These farmers have lower - in fact zero - marginal returns to the … grants. Thus we find important heterogeneity in returns to investment and strong evidence that farmers with higher marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969288
The investment decisions of small‐scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment … conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in which farmers were randomly assigned to receive cash grants, grants of or …, farmers are able to find resources to increase expenditure on their farms. Demand for insurance in subsequent years is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969291
random subset of farmers who (endogenously) did not borrow. These farmers have lower – in fact zero – marginal returns to the … grants. Thus we find important heterogeneity in returns to investment and strong evidence that farmers with higher marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908064
The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment … conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in which farmers were randomly assigned to receive cash grants, grants of or …, farmers are able to find resources to increase expenditure on their farms. Demand for insurance in subsequent years is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908078
This case presents a teaching tool which requires students to identify an optimal equipment plan for a northern plains small grain farm. Students are presented with information from a farm owner regarding farm size, available labor, farming techniques used and other relevant issues. Students are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959998
Does credit availability exacerbate asset price inflation? Are there long run consequences? During the farm land price boom and bust before the Great Depression, we find that credit availability directly inflated land prices. Credit also amplified the relationship between positive fundamentals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211793