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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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leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …
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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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In this paper, a new form of weather derivative contract, namely the climatic zone-based growth degree-day (GDD) contract, is introduced. The objective is to increase the risk management efficiency in the agricultural sector of China and to reduce the model dimension of multi-regional...
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to answer the question, "Is the agenda of expansion of institutional finance to agriculture unfinished?" The findings in … institutional sources in 2012-13 covered 100 per cent of the input cost in agriculture in that year according to the National …
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By analyzing the pros and cons of the US farms taxation methodologies, this paper aims to suggest that best practice of taxing farms in transition economies would be consistent with a multiple of cash flow valuation approach and suggests that a liquid market for agricultural insurance can be...
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Agriculture is a risky and often expensive activity, where due to unpredictable weather conditions, crops may suffer … subsidies used in agriculture, as well as the role they played in changing areas, production and selling prices of agricultural …
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This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …
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conditions for agriculture after the breakdown of the Soviet Union. Because of insufficient access to input supply, credits and … markets, the productivity of the Georgian agriculture is very low. The small agricultural land surfaces lead, moreover, to …
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