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Finance for Food: Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance

Köhn, Doris (contributor) - 2014

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Use of the Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (ACEF) by the Department of Agriculture

Israel, Danilo C. - 2012

agriculture and fisheries. From the start of its actual implementation in 2000 up to the present, it has been plagued by numerous …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421237

CAP Reform, the Berlin Summit, and EU Enlargement

Schrader, Jörg-Volker - 2000

with a hypothetical first-best policy. The analysis focusses on the distortions in land allocation between agriculture …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260631

Risk in agriculture as impediment to rural lending: the case of North-Western Kazakhstan

Petrick, Martin; Ditges, C. Markus - 2000

for the low level of credit flow to agriculture in North-western Kazakhstan. A quadratic programming model was used in … there may be a role for the government in reducing risk exposition of agriculture in its current form, natural and economic … constraints suggest to pave the way for structural reforms that reduce the importance of agriculture in the rural economy. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299418

Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries

Conning, Jonathan; Udry, Christopher - 2005

This review examines portions of the vast literature on rural financial markets and household behavior in the face of risk and uncertainty. We place particular emphasis on studying the important role of financial intermediaries, competition and regulation in shaping the changing structure and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369143

Self-selection into credit markets: Evidence from agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - 2014

We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...

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Qualitätsstandards für Obst und Gemüse: Treiber oder Hemmschuh ländlicher Entwicklung?

von Schlippenbach, Vanessa; Teichmann, Isabel - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 21, pp. 338-347

Der Gartenbau hat sich zu einem der weltweit dynamischsten Agrarsektoren entwickelt. Der Anbau von Obst und Gemüse birgt insbesondere für Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer ein erhebliches Potential, um landwirtschaftliche Einkommen zu steigern und die ländliche Armut zu reduzieren....

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Social Capital, Tourism and Socio-Economic Transformation of Rural Society: Evidence from Nepal

Shakya, Martina - 2014

Tourism has a wide range of impacts on the economy, the natural environment and the people living in a destination. In the context of poor, rural societies, many scholars have emphasized the positive impacts of tourism on local economic growth. Concern has been voiced, however, about the social...

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Aid for agriculture and rural development in the global south: A changing landscape with new players and challenges

Chimhowu, Admos - 2013

This paper analyses the way aid for agriculture and rural development in the global south has changed over time. It … is a shift in priority within agriculture and rural development from the productive sector towards support for policy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319922

Agricultural support measures of advanced countries and food insecurity in developing countries

Herrmann, Michael - 2006

Many developing nations, especially the least developed countries, are subjected to recurrent spells of food insecurity. In order to understand food insecurity in these countries it is necessary to consider not only immediate or trigger-causes of food crises, but also its underlying or systemic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284527

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