... 03 2025 13 10 2025 30 12 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Index-based insurance Insurance adoption Gender of the insurance agent Mali Smallholder farmers G21 G22 Q14 Although index insurance...

...Adam Salifu Purpose The availability of agricultural credit for smallholder farmers in developing countries is widely recognised as crucial for improving their productivity. This paper explores the loan repayment behaviour of smallholder farmers in farmer-based organisations (FBOs) under Ghana's...

... 08 2024 02 09 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Ghana Sub-Saharan Africa Smallholder farmers Health insurance coverage Hired labour Soil and land investment Improving the quality of agricultural lands...

... a Discrete Choice Experiment with 420 smallholder farmers in central Madagascar, one of the region's poorest countries, to assess preferences for selected digital and conventional credit attributes. Findings Results of the mixed logit model and the comparison of the willingness-to-pay via Poe-test...

...). The agricultural sector also employs about 70% of Nigeria workforce and produced a significant proportion of the food consumed in the country (Mgbenka and Mbah, 2016 ; Obetta et al., 2020). However, agriculture in Nigeria is dominated by smallholder farmers who operate on a small land between 0.05...

...Peter Dawuni; Franklin Nantui Mabe; Osman Damba Tahidu Purpose 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 financial services towards farming needs attributed...

...James Atta Peprah; Isaac Koomson; Joshua Sebu; Chei Bukari Purpose Does financial inclusion matter for productivity among smallholder farmers? The authors answer this question by using the sixth and seventh rounds of the Ghana Living Standard Survey to examine the extent to which financial...

... rights only Probit model Northern Ghana Agricultural finance Smallholder farmers Farmer innovations Isaac Gershon Kodwo Ansah can be contacted at: agershon@uds.edu.gh 31 05 2019 05 11 2019 06 12 2019 13 12 2019 Finance is the key driver of all activities...

...N’Banan Ouattara; Xiong Xueping; Trazié Bertrand Athanase Youan BI; Lacina Traoré; J.K. Ahiakpa; Odountan Ambaliou Olounlade Purpose Several years after the regularization of microfinance activity in Côte d’Ivoire, smallholder farmers’ access to microfinance credits still remains marginal...

...Edward Martey; Alexander N. Wiredu; Prince M. Etwire; John K.M. Kuwornu Purpose Production credit is essential for enhancing the technical efficiency (TE) and the welfare of smallholder farmers in Africa. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of credit on smallholders’ TE using cross...

... practice of supplying these financial products. Social implications – A rigorous understanding of the potential of index-insurance and credit is essential for identifying the right mix of financial products that help smallholder farmers to increase farm productivity and their own well-being...