Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 80 Issue 3

Is financial education an effective means to improve financial literacy? Evidence from rural China

Huanhuan ZHang, Xueping Xiong

Using survey data from Shandong, Henan and Guizhou provinces of China, the purpose of this paper is to accurately measure the impact of rural residents’ financial education on…

Impact of the Basel III bank regulation on US agricultural lending

Kevin Nooree Kim, Ani L. Katchova

Following the recent global financial crisis, US regulatory agencies issued laws to implement the Basel III accords to ensure the resiliency of the US banking sector. Theories…

The US federal crop insurance program: a case study in rent seeking

Vincent H. Smith

Rent seeking is endemic to the process through which any policy or regulatory initiative is developed in the USA. The purpose of this paper is to show how farm and other interest…

The identification of geographical factors on the determination of the value of agri-food companies

Mariluz Maté-Sánchez-Val, Paolo Occhino

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence about the role of the geography on agri-food firms’ valuations. The goal is to test clusters and agglomeration effects on the SMEs…

An analysis of China’s reforms on mortgaging and transacting rural land use rights and entrepreneurial activity

Yanling Peng, Rong Kong

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic relationship with recent changes in China’s land use policy and rural development through innovation and entrepreneurship.

Determinants of smallholder farmers’ access to microfinance credits: A case study in Sassandra-Marahoué District, Côte d’Ivoire

N’Banan Ouattara, Xiong Xueping, Trazié Bertrand Athanase Youan BI, Lacina Traoré, J.K. Ahiakpa, Odountan Ambaliou Olounlade

Several years after the regularization of microfinance activity in Côte d’Ivoire, smallholder farmers’ access to microfinance credits still remains marginal. The purpose of this…

Farmer innovations in financing smallholder maize production in Northern Ghana

Mark Appiah-Twumasi, Samuel A. Donkoh, Isaac Gershon Kodwo Ansah

The purpose of this paper is to explore smallholder agricultural financing in Ghana’s Northern region by identifying farmers’ preferred traditional and innovative financing…

Banks' sustainable growth challenge under economic recessionary pressure

Maoyong Zheng, Cesar L. Escalante

This is a comparative study of the nature of operating decisions made by agricultural and non-agricultural banks, affecting their actual growth plans in the years around and…