Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 81 Issue 5

Reforming land mortgages in rural China and the incentives for application of environment-friendly formula fertilizers on farm

Peng Peng, Li Zhou

From the perspective of land mortgages, the purpose of this paper is to understand how farmers can be motivated to utilize environment-friendly formula fertilizers, thereby…

Rank-dependent preferences, social network and crop insurance uptake: field experimental evidence from rural China

Ruojin Zhang, Dan Fan, Gene Lai, Junqian Wu, Jungong Li

Agricultural insurance has become increasingly important to farmers' livelihood and production in rural China. Yet despite the enormous governmental subsidizing efforts, the…

Effects of village savings and loan association on agricultural value productivity in Northern Region of Ghana

Peter Dawuni, Franklin Nantui Mabe, Osman Damba Tahidu

Agriculture in Ghana is dominated by smallholder farmers in rural areas. Majority of these farmers are resource-poor and faced with serious challenges in accessing formal…

Formal credit usage and gender income gap: the case of farmers in Cambodia

Vichet Sam

The purpose of this article is to analyze the factors that drive gender income differences among farmers in Cambodia with a focus on the role of formal credit.

Impact of microfinance programs in Thailand

Wittawat Hemtanon, Christopher Gan

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of microfinance programs on the income and food expenditure of farm and nonfarm households in Thailand.

Financial sustainability in Italian farms: an analysis of the FADN sample

Gabriele Dono, Rebecca Buttinelli, Raffaele Cortignani

The paper examines the factors that influence the production of cash flows in a sample of Italian farm accountancy data network (FADN) farms to generate information useful for…

The impacts of interest rate changes on US Midwest farmland values

Albulena Basha, Wendong Zhang, Chad Hart

This paper quantifies the effects of recent Federal Reserve interest rate changes, specifically recent hikes and cuts in the federal funds rate since 2015, on Midwest farmland…

Gaussian process modeling of nonstationary crop yield distributions with applications to crop insurance

Wenbin Wu, Ximing Wu, Yu Yvette Zhang, David Leatham

The purpose of this paper is to bring out the development of a flexible model for nonstationary crop yield distributions and its applications to decision-making in crop insurance.