Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 78 Issue 1

Salvaging mortgage loans and land title redemption with revolving funds in Thailand

Ravivan Suwansin, John K.M. Kuwornu, Avishek Datta, Damien Jourdain, Ganesh P. Shivakoti

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of the revolving fund (RF) regarding the ability of smallholder debtors to retrieve land title deeds, and also to…

Financial constraints and production efficiency: A case from rice growers in drought prone areas of Indonesia

Aditya R. Khanal, Madhav Regmi

The purpose of this paper is to study the production and efficiency of rice growers in drought prone areas with special attention given to economic and financial factors.

Differences across farm typologies in capital investment during 1996-2013

Sarah Anne Stutzman

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of changes in farm economic conditions and macroeconomic trends on US farm capital expenditures between 1996 and 2013.

A quantile regression analysis of farmer cooperative performance

Jasper Grashuis

A financial perspective of farmer cooperative performance is assumed by conceptualizing the cooperative as an independent firm. The purpose of this paper is to explore variability…

Can agricultural credit scoring for microfinance institutions be implemented and improved by weather data?

Ulf Römer, Oliver Musshoff

In recent years, the application of credit scoring in urban microfinance institutions (MFIs) became popular, while rural MFIs, which mainly lend to agricultural clients, are…

Effect of input credit on smallholder farmers’ output and income: Evidence from Northern Ghana

Adam Iddrisu, Isaac Gershon Kodwo Ansah, Paul Kwame Nkegbe

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of input credit on smallholder farmers’ output and income using Masara N’Arziki support project in Northern Ghana.

Bounded rationality and the adoption of weather index insurance: Evidence from an extra-laboratory experiment with farmers in Germany

Oliver Mußhoff, Norbert Hirschauer, Sven Grüner, Stefan Pielsticker

The purpose of this paper is to check which role-bounded rationality might play as an explanation for farmers’ missing willingness to adopt weather index insurance (WII). WII is…

Net income risk, crop insurance and hedging

Cory Walters, Richard Preston

At the beginning of the production year producers face a complex risk management decision environment given by risks specific to their operation, multiple crop insurance contracts…

US farmers’ insurance choices under budget heuristics

Harun Bulut

Regional differences in crop insurance uptake have persisted over time. To partly explain this phenomenon, the purpose of this paper is to propose and evaluate a budget constraint…