Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 79 Issue 4

Effect of index-based livestock insurance on loan uptake: Evidence from the Borena zone of Southern Ethiopia

Tnsue Gebrekidan, Lyu Kaiyu

The purpose of this paper is to weigh up the effect of index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) on loan take up behavior of the pastoral households in the Borena zone of Southern…

Bridging the credit gap for sustainable medicinal plant value chain development in Northwestern Vietnam

Do Xuan Luan

The purpose of this paper is to explore the existence and determinants of the credit gap in the cinnamon value chain development in Northwestern Vietnam.

Are crop insurance premium-implied yield distributions valid?

Aleksandre Maisashvili, Henry Bryant, George Knapek, James Marc Raulston

The purpose of this paper is to develop methods for inferring if crop insurance premiums imply yield distributions that are valid according to standard laws of probability and…

Willingness to participate and pay for index-based crop insurance in Ghana

Joseph A. Adjabui, Peter R. Tozer, David I. Gray

The purpose of this paper is to assess farmers’ willingness to participate and pay for weather-based index insurance in the Upper East Region of Ghana, and what factors influence…

State-space approach to capital return in nonlinear growth processes

Petri P. Kärenlampi

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a capital return rate function for growth processes, and apply it to financial sustainability considerations in growing multiannual…

Valuation of an innovation strategy in the diversification of products in the agricultural auto parts sector

Elimar Veloso Conceição, Adhemar Sanches, David Ferreira Lopes Santos

The purpose of this paper is to value an innovation project derived from a product diversification strategy in the agricultural auto parts sector, considering uncertainties and…

Factors influencing farmers’ use of the warehouse receipt system in Indonesia

Endro Gunawan, John K.M. Kuwornu, Avishek Datta, Loc T. Nguyen

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing Indonesian farmers’ use of the warehouse receipt system (WRS) and their choice of private and public warehouses.