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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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Matching grant programs administered to agricultural groups and cooperatives have emerged as a means of helping smallholder farmers to commercialize in Nepal. These programs help farmers to access information on new technologies, overcome barriers to productive investment, and connect with...
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depend on agriculture for their livelihood and well-being. This paper attempts to build a picture of the vulnerability of …
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turn provides the key information for policy evaluation. The results suggest that access to subsidised credit has a …
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We hypothesize a reciprocal causation between crop insurance use and the economic performance of farms in an environment characterized by imperfect financial markets and farms’ budget constraints. To test our hypothesis, we apply a system of simultaneous equations consisting of economic...
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This paper deals with the analysis of the impact of credit rationing on the farmer's economic equilibrium and the analysis of different policy scenarios in a derived neoclassical adjustment cost framework. The theoretical model is an optimal dynamic investment model, in which the upper bound on...
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transformation in global trading policies in the agricultural sector. The Sudan agriculture tends to look abroad to develop sales and …
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challenges in Bulgarian agriculture, and suggests recommendations for improvement of public policies for effective environmental … analyzing the eco-management in agriculture. Second, it presents the evolutions of diverse forms of eco-management during post …-communist transition and EU integration of Bulgarian agriculture, and analyzes their impact(s) on agents' behaviour and efficiency. Third …
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Farm survey data show that the risk aversion of West Australian farmers is comparable to that of other asset holders. An increase in the variability of crop yield by 20%, which may be caused by future climate change, would raise their willingness to pay for crop insurance almost one-to-one by...
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