Bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in Nigeria: A pilot study
Credit allows borrowers to access funds required to make an investment before returns materialize. For smallholder farmers, who must invest in agricultural inputs (i.e., seeds, chemicals, equipment, land, and labor) during the planting season before earning income from the sale of agricultural produ...
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| author | Ambler, Kate Balana, Bedru Bloem, Jeffrey R. Maruyama, Eduardo Olanrewaju, Opeyemi |
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| description | Credit allows borrowers to access funds required to make an investment before returns materialize. For smallholder farmers, who must invest in agricultural inputs (i.e., seeds, chemicals, equipment, land, and labor) during the planting season before earning income from the sale of agricultural produce after har vest, credit helps alleviate liquidity constraints and promotes the ability of local agricultural production to support nutrition and food security. In rural Nigeria, access to credit—especially formal credit from finan cial institutions—is limited. Data collected in 2020 show that less than a third of households in rural Ni geria report using credit in the previous 12 months and only two percent of rural households borrowed credit from a financial institution. The rest is borrowed informally from friends, family, or local money lenders. In the absence of credit, smallholder farmers must cover the costs of agricultural production with their own funds that they have available during the planting season. This constrains agricultural production and contributes, in part, to the large gaps in agricultural productivity between high-income and low-in come countries around the world. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1401542025-11-06T05:45:18Z Bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in Nigeria: A pilot study Ambler, Kate Balana, Bedru Bloem, Jeffrey R. Maruyama, Eduardo Olanrewaju, Opeyemi income investment capacity development farm inputs smallholders nutrition food security credit investments Credit allows borrowers to access funds required to make an investment before returns materialize. For smallholder farmers, who must invest in agricultural inputs (i.e., seeds, chemicals, equipment, land, and labor) during the planting season before earning income from the sale of agricultural produce after har vest, credit helps alleviate liquidity constraints and promotes the ability of local agricultural production to support nutrition and food security. In rural Nigeria, access to credit—especially formal credit from finan cial institutions—is limited. Data collected in 2020 show that less than a third of households in rural Ni geria report using credit in the previous 12 months and only two percent of rural households borrowed credit from a financial institution. The rest is borrowed informally from friends, family, or local money lenders. In the absence of credit, smallholder farmers must cover the costs of agricultural production with their own funds that they have available during the planting season. This constrains agricultural production and contributes, in part, to the large gaps in agricultural productivity between high-income and low-in come countries around the world. 2023-12-19 2024-03-14T12:08:59Z 2024-03-14T12:08:59Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140154 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ambler, Kate; Balana, Bedru; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Maruyama, Eduardo; and Olanrewaju, Opeyemi. 2023. Bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in Nigeria: A pilot study. Rethinking Food Markets Initiative Project Note December 2023. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137032. |
| spellingShingle | income investment capacity development farm inputs smallholders nutrition food security credit investments Ambler, Kate Balana, Bedru Bloem, Jeffrey R. Maruyama, Eduardo Olanrewaju, Opeyemi Bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in Nigeria: A pilot study |
| title | Bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in Nigeria: A pilot study |
| title_full | Bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in Nigeria: A pilot study |
| title_fullStr | Bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in Nigeria: A pilot study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in Nigeria: A pilot study |
| title_short | Bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in Nigeria: A pilot study |
| title_sort | bundling cash loans with agricultural input loans for farmers in nigeria a pilot study |
| topic | income investment capacity development farm inputs smallholders nutrition food security credit investments |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140154 |
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