Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 81 Issue 1

Credit booms and financial instability in US agriculture

Todd Kuethe, Todd Hubbs

This study examines the relationship between economic fluctuations and financial distress in the US agricultural sector, which is associated with a large degree of financial…

The impact of microfinance services on the efficiency of family farms in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Cameroon

Alim Belek, Abega Ngono Jean Marie

Does MFIs agricultural credit influence the determinants of the efficiency of SFF which are socio-economic factors of the farmers but also agricultural endowments of family farms…

Net present value of multiannual growth in the absence of periodic boundary conditions

Petri P. Kärenlampi

Management implications of net present value computation are investigated in comparison to computation of capital return rate, in the absence of periodic boundary conditions.

Factors affecting Canadian credit unions' financial performance

Eman Almehdawe, Saqib Khan, Manish Lamsal, Angèle Poirier

The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that affect the Canadian credit unions' financial performance which play an important role in providing financial services to…

Adoption of crop insurance in Ghana: an application of the complementary log-log truncated Poisson double-hurdle model

Kwame Asiam Addey, John Baptist D. Jatoe, George Tsey-Mensah Kwadzo

The aim of this paper is to identify the factors that influence rice farmers' decisions to adopt crop insurance and premium payments (willingness to pay [WTP] amounts). The paper…

Filling the voids left by the formal sector: informal borrowings by poor households in northern mountainous Vietnam

Nguyen Huu Thu, Pham Bao Duong, Nguyen Huu Tho

This study aims to examine the accessibility, loan purposes and effects of informal credits on poor households in Northern mountainous Vietnam.

Design of the rainfall index annual forage program

Abby ShalekBriski, Wade Brorsen, James K. Rogers, Jon T. Biermacher, David Marburger, Jeff Edwards

The authors determine the effectiveness of the Rainfall Index Annual Forage Program (RIAFP) in offsetting yield risk of winter annual forage growers. The authors also evaluate the…

Re-visiting traditional trust measurement: using artefactual field experiments to measure trust and predict micro-lending decisions

Steven Buck, Yoko Kusunose, Jeffrey Alwang

The purpose of this work is to experimentally measure trust and study its relationship to group loan allocation within a community bank.

Using a regional climate model to develop index-based drought insurance for sovereign disaster risk transfer

Roman Hohl, Ze Jiang, Minh Tue Vu, Srivatsan Vijayaraghavan, Shie-Yui Liong

Examine the usability of rainfall and temperature outputs of a regional climate model (RCM) and meteorological drought indices to develop a macro-level risk transfer product to…