Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 84 Issue 2/3

Financial inclusion, digital finance and agricultural participation

Muhammad Zubair Mumtaz

Financial inclusion and digital finance go side by side and help enhance agricultural activities; however, the magnitude of digital financial services varies across countries. In…

Impacts of credit constraints on adoption of risk management strategies and income of maize farmers in Northern Nigeria

Ayodeji Ogunleye, Mercy Olajumoke Akinloye, Ayodeji Kehinde, Oluseyi Moses Ajayi, Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa

A correlation has been shown in the literature between credit constraints and the adoption of agricultural technologies, technical efficiencies and measures for adapting to…

Can board funds, bank credit, and economic development improve food production? Evidence from South Asia

Usman Farooq, Abbas Ali Chandio, Zhenzhong Guan

This study investigates the impact of board funds, banking credit, and economic development on food production in the context of South Asian economies (India, Pakistan…

Evaluating USDA’s farm balance sheet forecasts

Pedro Antonio Díaz Cachay, Todd Kuethe

The United States Department of Agriculture Farm Balance Sheet forecasts provide important, timely information on the financial assets and debt in the U.S. farm sector. Despite…

Credit rating of family farms based on optimal assignment of credit indicators by BP neural network

Wenluhan Fu, Zhanjiang Li

In order to solve the problems of difficulty in lending to family farms and the lack of credit products, it is necessary to classify the credit rating of family farms and…

Is US farm sector debt underestimated? Evidence from equipment lending

Brian Briggeman, Luke Byers, Jennifer Ifft, Ryan Kuhns, Noah Miller, Jisang Yu

The growth of lending from nontraditional lenders may pose challenges for official US Department of Agriculture (USDA) farm sector debt estimates, but it is difficult to find data…

The scale effects of agricultural credits, institutional governance and microfinance sustainability in Sub-Saharan African countries

Arsène Mba Fokwa

The study examines the synthesized influences of institutional governance and the scale effects of agricultural credits on the sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs…

The demand for agricultural credit in central Chile

Alvaro Reyes Duarte, Carlos J.O. Trejo-Pech, Andrés Villegas, Roselia Servín-Juárez

The design of effective policies that increase access to agricultural credit should consider understanding credit constraint farmers’ groups and their response to changes in the…

Implications of crop yield distributions for multiperil crop insurance rating in Ghana: a lasso model application

Kwame Asiam Addey, John Baptist D. Jatoe

The objective of this paper is to examine crop yield predictions and their implications on MPCI in Ghana. Farmers in developing countries struggle with their ability to deal with…