Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 82 Issue 5

Social ties, access to loans, and loan repayments in savings and loan associations: evidence from rural Tanzania

Haki Pamuk, Marcel van Asseldonk, Ruerd Ruben, Tumainiely Kweka, Cor Wattel, Joseph Phillip Hella

Institutional structures of rural savings and loan associations influence their performances. One of the guiding principles for defining clear group membership boundaries is by…

Principal operators' farm risk attitudes in hot and cold climates

Ahmad Zia Wahdat, Michael Gunderson

The study investigates whether there is an association between climate types and farm risk attitudes of principal operators.

Using Bayesian Kriging for spatial smoothing of trends in non-normal yield densities

Bart Niyibizi, B. Wade Brorsen, Eunchun Park

The purpose of this paper is to estimate crop yield densities considering time trends in the first three moments and spatially varying coefficients.

Assessing risk attitudes and time preferences on the rural–urban interface of Bengaluru, India

Johannes Wegmann, Daniel Hermann, Oliver Musshoff

Urbanization is a main driver of the transformation from agricultural-based economies to service-based economies. At the same time, urbanization might also alter preferences and…

The impact of credit on the technical efficiency of food crop producing smallholder farmers in Ethiopia

Melkamu Girma Koricho, Musa Hasen Ahmed

This study examines the impact of access to credit on the technical efficiency (TE) of maize-producing smallholder farmers in Ethiopia and explores factors determining credit…

Credit-linked insurance bundles in Zambia: evidence from the aftermath of a shock

Marcel Van Asseldonk, Gideon Onumah, Robert Lensink

This research seeks to assess the impact of a credit-linked insurance bundle in Zambia, in terms of the inputs used and the amount of maize subsequently produced and sold.

Farmers' perception and preference of Islamic Banking in Turkey

Mehmet Bulut, Harun Celik

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that influence farmers' preference for the use of Islamic banks in Turkey and to investigate their knowledge level and…

Determinants of trade credit financing: a dynamic analysis comparing agri-food cooperatives and non-cooperatives

MCarmen Martínez-Victoria, Mariluz Maté-Sanchez-Val

The particular characteristics of agri-food cooperatives reduce their ability to access external financial resources. The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors…

The willingness to offer livestock insurance in rural China: a discrete choice experiment among Chinese insurance agents

Youwei Yang, Wenjun Long, Calum G. Turvey

This paper investigates Chinese agricultural insurance agents willingness to offer (WTO) livestock insurance based on the variations of eight main attributes of livestock…

Informal finance: its drivers and contributions to farm investment among rural farmers in Northcentral Nigeria

Abraham Falola, Ridwan Mukaila, Kafilat Ololade Abdulhamid

The problem of inaccessibility of finance for farm investment is a common phenomenon among farmers, especially the rural dwellers. Thus, there is a need to know how the…

Diversification into agritourism by cocoa farmers in Ghana as an alternative source of income

Richard Kwasi Bannor, Helena Oppong-Kyeremeh, Bismark Amfo, Ada Adoley Allotey

The authors investigate cocoa farmers' willingness and motivation to participate in agritourism entrepreneurship in Ghana.