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Financial literacy and food safety standards in Guatemala : the heterogeneous impact of GlobalGAP on farm income
Müller, Anna K.; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2015
The transformation of the global agrifood system is characterized by the increasing importance of food safety and quality standards. This trend is challenging farmers in countries like Guatemala, who often lack necessary skills and assets. We contribute to the ongoing discussion about the impact...
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Food safety standards in the Guatemalan fresh pea sector : the role of financial literacy in technology adoption
Müller, Anna K.; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2015
The transformation of the global agrifood system is characterized by the increasing importance of food safety and quality standards. This trend is challenging farmers in countries like Guatemala as they lack necessary skills and assets. This study analyzes the determinants of Globalgap adoption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529511
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Agricultural decisions after relaxing credit and risk constraints
Karlan, Dean; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2012
leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …. -- agriculture ; insurance markets ; credit markets ; risk ; underinvestment ; misallocation …
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert Darko; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; … - 2013
strong, and insurance leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160330
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean S. - 2013
leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The binding constraint …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089789
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Agricultural credit constraints in smallholder farming in developing countries : evidence from Nigeria
Balana, Bedru Babulo; Oyeyemi, Motunrayo Ayowumi - In: World development sustainability 1 (2022) 1, pp. 1-12
The agricultural sector in developing countries like Nigeria is characterized by low productivity, driven partly by low use of modern agricultural technologies. Poor access to credit is seen as a key barrier to adoption of these technologies. Policy discourses and literature often associate...
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The impact of e-wallet on informal farm entrepreneurship development in rural Nigeria
Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N.; Asongu, Simplice - 2018
Transforming agriculture from a largely subsistence enterprise to a profitable commercial venture is both a …
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Role of foreign direct investments in agriculture, forestry and fishing in developing countries
Nyiwul, Linus; Koirala, Niraj P. - In: Future Business Journal 8 (2022), pp. 1-12
particular, decreased capital inflows into agriculture will negatively affect food security and growth. However, there remain …, we find that there exists bidirectional causality between foreign direct investments in agriculture, forestry and fishing … in the agriculture, forestry and fishing. The effect of FDI on value added in agriculture, forestry and fishing remains …
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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations
Qaim, Matin - 2014
details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …
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Small farms : changing structures and roles in economic development
Braun, Joachim von; Mirzabaev, Alisher - 2015
Small farms are the largest employment and small business group among the poor. Their businesses use mostly labor and local resources and face local constraints, but at the same time, they are affected by increasingly complex national and global economic changes, which lead to shifts in...
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