...Ussif Abdul-Aziz Sirin; John Baptist Jatoe; Freda Asem Purpose This paper assessed the impact of access to credit and associated productivity variations on rice farmers’ welfare in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The authors employed a quasi-experimental research design and the conditional...

...Armand Fréjuis Akpa; Romanus Osabohien; Junaid Ashraf; Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan Purpose Post-harvest losses are major problems faced by farmers and this is due to their poor access to credit considered as a low rate of financial inclusion. This paper aims at analysing the relationship...

...Fredrick Onyango Odhiambo; Radha Upadhyaya Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the level of flexibility in loan products offered to smallholder farmers in Siaya County in Kenya and to examine the effect of flexibility on access to credit. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

... to and the amount of institutional loans taken by households. These models also account for potential selection bias in the findings. Findings The study reveals that access to credit is strongly associated with the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of agricultural households. However, about half...

...Martinson Ankrah Twumasi; Yuansheng Jiang; Frank Osei Danquah; Abbas Ali Chandio; Wonder Agbenyo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of savings mobilization on access to credit among smallholder farmers’ in the Birim central municipality of Ghana. Design/methodology...

...-pastoralists, investment in rain-fed food crop production is also a productive investment opportunity in some areas. Agricultural risks and limited access to credit are not only serious impediments to agricultural productivity, but also remain two of the main sources of potential poverty traps...

...Million Tadesse Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of access to credit and safety nets on fertilizer adoption in rural Ethiopia. Design/methodology/approach – A panel data set collected in 2005 and 2007 on 278 households and over 5,700 plots from the Southern...

... Oliver Musshoff Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany Access to credit Agricultural finance Agriculture Credit Loan repayment Loans Microfinance institutions Tanzania...

...Michael Friis Pedersen; Jakob Vesterlund Olsen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel measure of access to credit suited to estimate the relative change in credit reserves. Design/methodology/approach – A debt possibility frontier is estimated using data envelopment...

... show that access to credit for agricultural firms in Madagascar can be enhanced by the provisioning of flexible microfinance loans, the investigated MFI only introduced flexible microfinance loans in 2011 and currently only offers them through five branch offices. Thus, the product is new to the MFI...

... the magnitude of volume rationing for all loan applications and an OLS‐Model to examine the loan delinquencies of all microloans disbursed by the MFI. Findings The results reveal that agricultural firms face higher obstacles to get credit but as soon as they have access to credit, their loans...

...Pavel Ciaian; Jan Fałkowski; d'Artis Kancs Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse how farm production and input use (land, variable inputs, labour, and capital) is related to farm access to credit in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) transition countries. Design/methodology/approach...