Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 83 Issue 2

Livestock risk protection subsidies changes on producer premiums

Christopher N. Boyer, Andrew P. Griffith

Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) insurance can reduce losses from price declines for cattle producers, but LRP adoptions has been limited. In 2019 and 2020, LRP subsidies were…

Determinants of institutional agricultural credit access and its linkage with farmer satisfaction in India: a moderated-mediation analysis

Shiladitya Dey, Piyush Kumar Singh, Megha Deepak Mhaskar

The study assesses the relationship between institutional credit access and farmer satisfaction using contextual mediating and moderating variables. This study identifies various…

How does tenancy affect farmland prices? Effects of lease status, lease term and buyer type

Maximilian Humpesch, Stefan Seifert, Alfons Balmann, Silke Hüttel

Lease contracts at the time of sale influence buyers' expectations about future returns of farmland ownership and may thus contribute to price dispersion. This paper investigates…

Simulating risk management strategies for specialized farming systems: the potential impact of the EU income stabilization tool

Cinzia Zinnanti, Attilio Coletta, Michele Torrigiani, Simone Severini

This study assesses the potential impact of the European Income Stabilization Tool (IST – a whole farm income risk management [RM] tool) within a farm cooperative specializing in…

Assessing the financial sustainability of a rural livestock practice: a case of Pakistan

Madeeha Omer Lakhani, Sana Tauseef, Wajid Ali Chattha

This research aims to investigate the feasibility of formalizing an old, informal livestock financing practice in Pakistan known as Adhyara through assessment of estimated return…

Identifying farmers' preferences for types of credit and its market structure in rural Benin using the conjoint analysis approach

Emile Sègbégnon Sonehekpon, Rose Fiamohe

This study analyzes farmers' preferences for agricultural credit and its market structure in rural Benin using the conjoint analysis approach.

Financial inclusion and post-harvest losses in West African economic and Monetary Union

Armand Fréjuis Akpa, Romanus Osabohien, Junaid Ashraf, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan

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…

Prospects for weather-indexed insurance for blueberry growers

Xuan Liu, G. Cornelis van Kooten, Eric Martin Gerbrandt, Jun Duan

The authors investigate whether an index-based weather insurance (WII) product can complement or replace existing traditional crop yield insurance for mitigating farmers'…

Regional impacts of rural credit and rural insurance policies on crop area and productivity: evidence from São Paulo state, Brazil (2008 and 2017)

Francisca Nathalia de Sousa Leite, Eduardo Rodrigues de Castro, Henrique Ryosuke Tateishi

Constrained input use and lower productivity of rural establishments may be associated with restricted or concentrated access to financial resources, especially in developing…