Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 80 Issue 1

The impact of financial leverage on farm technical efficiency during periods of price instability

Yiorgos Gadanakis, Gianluca Stefani, Ginerva Virginia Lombardi, Marco Tiberti

The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the relationship between capital structure and technical efficiency (TE) for Italian cereal farms during the…

Capital and credit constraints in the engagement of youth in Ghanaian agriculture

Martinson Ankrah Twumasi, Yuansheng Jiang, Monica Owusu Acheampong

The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors influencing rural youth farmers’ credit constraints status and the effect of credit constraint on the intensity of…

Performance of agricultural cooperative banks in Japan: Difference between stock and flow output variables

Kozo Harimaya, Koichi Kagitani

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficiency of the banking business of Japan’s agricultural cooperatives (JAs), which depend heavily on financial business with…

Loan officer rotation and credit access: evidence from Madagascar

Yaw Sarfo, Oliver Musshoff, Ron Weber

With exclusive data from a commercial microfinance institution (MFI) in Madagascar, the purpose of this paper is to investigate if loan officer rotation (change of loan officer…

Credit sources, access and factors influencing credit demand among rural livestock farmers in Nigeria

Asenath Kotugan Fada Silong, Yiorgos Gadanakis

Rural farmers’ access to farm credit in Nigeria has been very low, which affects farm performance, and credit providers have blamed for the problem in the sector. While this…

The impact of credit on productivity of smallholder farmers in Ghana

Ralph Essem Nordjo, Charles K.D. Adjasi

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of access to production credit on the productivity of smallholder farmers.

Use of financial diaries to understand smallholder investment finance a cross country analysis in Mozambique, Tanzania and Pakistan

Maria del Puerto Soria, Emilio Hernandez, Riccardo Ciacci

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relative importance of different sources of finance for agricultural and non-agricultural investments using unique Smallholder…

Premium subsidies and crop insurance demand in Brazil

Mateus Pereira Lavorato, Lorena Vieira Costa Lelis, Marcelo José Braga

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of premium subsidies provided by the Brazilian government through the Rural Insurance Premium Subvention Program (PSR) on the…