Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of short-term loan (STL) vs long-term loan (LTL) on wheat productivity of small farms in Sindh, Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach: The econometric estimation is based on cross-sectional data collected in 2016 from 18 villages in...

Purpose: This study aims to empirically examine the relationship between energy consumption and agricultural economic growth in Pakistan over the period from 1984 to 2016. Design/methodology/approach: This study used the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of savings mobilization on access to credit among smallholder farmers’ in the Birim central municipality of Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional primary data set was used to estimate the factors influencing...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the long-run relationship between financial inclusion and agricultural growth in Pakistan for the period of 1960–2018. Design/methodology/approach: The autoregressive distributed lag...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors influencing rural youth farmers’ credit constraints status and the effect of credit constraint on the intensity of participation of these farmers in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: The econometric estimation is based on...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of access to credit on technical efficiency (TE) of maize farmers in a developing country, Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed an instrumental variable approach and the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) method for...

Purpose: This article examines the impact of experience on rural households' preferences for microfinance attributes, using household data from Sichuan province in China. Design/methodology/approach: We use the Bayesian updating method to account for the learning process involved in acquiring...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the determinants of rural dwellers financial literacy in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional primary data set was used to estimate the factors influencing rural farm households' financial literacy using the IV-Tobit model. Findings: The...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the key risk components (probability and consequence) and their respective thresholds affecting agri-food supply chain operations in Ghana. In addition, it seeks to understand the relationship between the major risk sources and to fathom the...