... as builds the repayment capacity of each actor along the entire chain. Caniato et al. (2016) also argue that AVC improves credit access to smallholder farmers, since it is an important route to reach out to large numbers of smallholders at reduced costs and risks (Miller and Jones, 2010...

...Yaw Sarfo; Oliver Musshoff; Ron Weber Purpose With exclusive data from a commercial microfinance institution (MFI) in Madagascar, the purpose of this paper is to investigate if loan officer rotation (change of loan officer) has an effect on credit access (loan approval) in rural and in urban areas...

... statistics, the logit and multinomial logit models to determine participants’ socio-economic characteristics, sources of credit, access, factors influencing credit demand generally and from the various sources of credit identified. Findings Findings reveal only 47.6 per cent of the participants accessed...

... is linked with increased adoption of agricultural technologies (Abdallah, 2016b). At a macro level, limited access to credit has been identified as a major constraint that prevents people escape from poverty (Kumar et al., 2013). Q11 Q14 Credit access Credit allocation Household...

... of the authors’ knowledge, to use the CMP framework to jointly estimate access to credit, credit constraint, and productivity. The results indicate that estimating credit access and constraint models separately would have yielded biased estimates. Thus, this paper informs future research on farmers’ credit...

... relationships would increase organic farms’ credit access to effectively address an impending supply gap in an expanding industry. Originality/value – To the knowledge, a specific focus on organic farms in understanding farm borrower-lender relationships has never been explored in literature. © Emerald...

...Feng Wu; Zhengfei Guan; Robert Myers Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a unified theoretical framework that explains farm capital structure choice. Design/methodology/approach – The framework accommodates different credit access scenarios and heterogeneous risk profiles...