Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 81 Issue 2

Household margin insurance of agricultural sector in Indonesia using a farmer exchange rate index

Atina Ahdika, Dedi Rosadi, Adhitya Ronnie Effendie, Gunardi

Farmer exchange rate (FER) is the ratio between a farmer's income and expenditure and is also an indicator of farmers’ welfare. There is little research regarding its use in risk…

The ripple effect of credit accessibility on the technical efficiency of maize farmers in Ghana

Anthony Siaw, Yuansheng Jiang, Martinson Ankrah Twumasi, Wonder Agbenyo, Gideon Ntim-Amo, Frank Osei Danquah, Ernest Kwarko Ankrah

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of access to credit on technical efficiency (TE) of maize farmers in a developing country, Ghana.

Correlates and impact of crop insurance in India: evidence from a nationally representative survey

A.G. Adeeth Cariappa, Darshnaben P. Mahida, Priyanka Lal, B.S. Chandel

The purpose of this paper is to identify the correlates of crop insurance adoption and estimate the impact on debt and farm income.

The Anchor Borrowers Programme and youth rice farmers in Northern Nigeria

Opeyemi Olanrewaju, Romanus Osabohien, James Fasakin

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of Anchor Borrowers Programme (APB) on youth rice farmers’ productivity (yield/ha).

Crowding out agricultural insurance and the subsidy system in Italy: empirical evidence of the charity hazard phenomenon

Pier Paolo Miglietta, Donatella Porrini, Giulio Fusco, Fabian Capitanio

The term “charity hazard” refers to the issue of the crowding out of insurance by co-existing relief programs in the context of different institutional governmental disaster…

Examining institutional credit access among agricultural households in Eastern India: trends, patterns and determinants

Anjani Kumar, Raya Das, Aditya K S, Seema Bathla, Girish K. Jha

This paper is an attempt to understand the pattern of credit among agricultural households in Eastern India and to identify the correlates of their access to institutional credit…

Did POM Wonderful leave an aftertaste?

Mark Steven Johnson

The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling that POM Wonderful could sue Coca-Cola, a competitor, for misrepresentation of their products…

Optimal capital structure in agricultural cooperatives and implications for equity retirement

Jeffrey Royer, Gregory McKee

This paper presents a model for determining the optimal capital structure for cooperatives and explores the relationship between financial leverage and the ability of cooperatives…

Testing for regime-switching behaviour in Finnish agricultural land prices

Juho Valtiala

This study analyses agricultural land price dynamics in order to better understand price development and to improve forecast accuracy. Understanding the evolution of agricultural…