Smallholder farmers face various challenges in production one of them being inaccessibility to credit. This study specifically sought to identify household socio-economic characteristics and institutional requirements influencing access to credit among smallholder farmers in Nyandarua District....

Kapitalmangel ist eine wesentliche Ursache, warum die kenianischen Kleinbauern zu wenig und zu teuer produzieren. Deshalb wurde 1963 die Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) ins Leben gerufen, um mehr Kredite in den kleinbäuerlichen Agrarbereich lenken zu können. Vor diesem Hintergrund geht...

Large and regular seasonal price fluctuations in local grain markets appear to offer African farmers substantial inter-temporal arbitrage opportunities, but these opportunities remain largely unexploited: small-scale farmers are commonly observed to "sell low and buy high" rather than the...