Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 74 Issue 3

Fertilizer adoption, credit access, and safety nets in rural Ethiopia

Million Tadesse

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of access to credit and safety nets on fertilizer adoption in rural Ethiopia.

What is driving economic and financial success of US cow-calf operations?

Richard Nehring, Jeffery Gillespie, Charles Hallahan, James Michael Harris, Ken Erickson

– The purpose of this paper is to determine the drivers of economic financial success of US cow-calf operations.

Determinants of insurance adoption among Bulgarian farmers

Marianne Lefebvre, Dimitre Nikolov, Sergio Gomez-y-Paloma, Minka Chopeva

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the determinants of agricultural insurance adoption in Bulgaria, using a purpose-built survey of 224 farmers interviewed in 2011. The…

Crop yield distributions: fit, efficiency, and performance

Bruce J. Sherrick, Christopher A. Lanoue, Joshua Woodard, Gary D. Schnitkey, Nicholas D. Paulson

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the empirical evidence about crop yield distributions that are often used in practical models evaluating crop yield risk and…

Agricultural credit rationing in Ghana: what do formal lenders look for?

Dadson Awunyo-Vitor, Ramatu Mahama Al-Hassan, Daniel Bruce Sarpong, Irene Egyir

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of agricultural credit rationing by formal lenders in Ghana.

Agricultural investors valuing sequences of monetary rewards – results of an experiment

Martin Philipp Steinhorst, Enno Bahrs

The purpose of this paper is to quantify the differences between the classical normative investment theory and alternative investment models of agricultural stakeholders’ choices…

Designing farm supplemental revenue coverage options on top of crop insurance coverage

Harun Bulut, Keith J. Collins

The purpose of this paper is to use simulation analysis to assess farmer choice between crop insurance and supplemental revenue options as proposed during development of the…

Domestic and foreign direct investment in Ghanaian agriculture

Justice Gameli Djokoto, Francis Yao Srofenyoh, Kobla Gidiglo

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) into agriculture on domestic investment in agriculture.