Using a rare flood in April 2019 in Iran as a natural experiment, we study the role of local banks in mitigating the financial consequence of natural disasters to smallholder farmers. We find that local branches immediately react to the disaster by increasing their lending for two months...

This study investigates the impact of profitability and technical efficiency among rice farming households beneficiaries of BOA loan scheme in Benue state. Primary and secondary data were used while methods employed for analyzing data include; descriptive statistics, gross margin analysis and...