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Digital farmer registry and tailored extension and advisory services in Ethiopia: A process evaluation by Sebsibie, Samuel, Ketema, Dessalegn Molla, Abate, Gashaw T.

“…DAs actively engage in activities that do not typically fall under the mandate of agricultural extension services, including the collection of taxes, loan repayments and mobilization of labor for public works. …”
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Myanmar's microfinance sector, agriculture, and COVID-19: Emerging insights and new challenges by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…Efforts should be focused on meeting the MFIs’ need for loanable funds through mechanisms such as exchange rate hedging, credit guarantees, and loan enhancement, while continuing to encourage flexibility around existing financing. …”
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The triangle of microfinance: financial sustainability, outreach, and impact by Zeller, Manfred, Meyer, Richard L.

“…There is much waste and duplication, and some mature programs have declining loan recovery rates, even as competition for borrowers rises from conventional banks and finance companies. …”
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Rising strong: Resilient farming through seed and mechanization by International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

“…Notably, the Chengetai and Apiary Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSALs) from Ward 17 invested significantly with purchases of US$1,016 and US$761 respectively, and were rewarded with valuable agricultural tools—a peanut butter machine and basin digger, encouraging further community participation in agricultural advancements. …”
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Impact of risk-contingent credit and traditional credit on smallholders’ agricultural investment and productivity: Experimental evidence from Kenya by Ndegwa, Michael K., Shee, Apurba, Ward, Patrick S., Liu, Yanyan, Turvey, Calum G., You, Liangzhi

“…We use a multiyear, multi-arm randomized controlled trial implemented among 1,053 smallholders in Kenya to evaluate ex-ante investment and ex-post productivity and welfare benefits of two competing lending models: risk-contingent credit (RCC)—which embeds crop insurance with a loan product—and traditional credit (TC). We rely on local average treatment effects to demonstrate the effects of these alternative credit products on borrowers but report the intention-to-treat effects for their broader policy significance. …”
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National workshop on Drought Management: Knowledge Products and Tools for Sri Lanka by Alahacoon, Niranga, Amarnath, Giriraj, Dickowita, Ranoja, de Silva, S.

“…Discussions covered financing options, including grant, loan, bond, and insurance instruments, and emphasized nature-based solutions and watershed management. …”
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Explore carbon sink of bamboo with M+ living lab at Qingshan by Zhen, Yan, Yang, Xiaoneng, Chen, Kevin Z.

“…It then examines the integration of bamboo into China’s carbon markets and broader climate policy framework, and highlights regional practices such as Anji’s bamboo carbon trading and loan schemes as examples of “bamboo-as-development-tool” linking carbon sinks, green finance and rural revitalization. …”
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Treadle pump irrigation in Malawi: adoption, gender and benefits by Kamwamba-Mtethiwa, J., Namara, Regassa E., Fraiture, Charlotte de, Mangisoni, J., Owusu, E.

“…Male adopters mostly acquire their pumps through a loan. Women tend to spend the additional income on food for the household while men tend to spend it mostly on non-food items. …”
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Bankernas bedömning av lantbrukskrediter : en jämförelse mellan olika branscher by Granath, Ulrik, Jansson, Gustaf

“…Companies within the sector have generally had few loans and large sums of money tied in assets. The profitability of the companies has on the other hand been low. …”

I mötet med banken by Holm, Linda

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Why rural households choose not to participate in the open and optional village development fund in the poverty stricken areas of China by Zheng, Xian

“…Thus, complete the interrelated insurance market for borrowers, guarantee the nine-year compulsory education in the rural areas, choose appropriate promoting time , strengthen the rural medical insurance system and education loan mechanism help reduce the self-constraint behavior. …”

Kreditgivning till lantbruksföretag by Åkesson, Filip

“…The total debts for the activity are 13 million crowns. This includes mature loans. An operation plan had been made for the present activity and one for the future activities to see the worth of the investment. …”
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Beslutsprocess vid förvärv av jordbruksmark by Vernersson, Patric, Möller, Emil

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Likviditetsanalys av belånade skogsfastigheter by Ringborg, Niklas

Farmer seed systems for pigeonpea in coastal Andhra Pradesh by Bramel-Cox, P.J., Kiran, S., Reddy, U., Varaprasad, K.S., Chandra, S.

“…This seed is acquired in exchange for cash or as a loan or gift. Understanding the possible sources of seed exchange as well as the frequency of this exchange is necessary to understand the risk of genetic erosion or loss in pigeonpea.…”
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Stakeholders prioritization of climate-smart agriculture interventions: Evaluation of a framework by Khatri-Chhetri, Arun, Pant, Anjali, Aggarwal, Pramod K., Vasireddy, Vijya Vardhan, Yadav, Akhilesh

“…In the fourth step, incentive mechanisms to promote CSA interventions such as government subsidy, market linkage, provision of loan and capacity building were evaluated with farmers and key stakeholders. …”
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CSA/SuPER - Upscaling CSA with small-scale food producers organised via VSLAs: Financing for adoption, behavioural change and resilience in rural Iringa Region, Tanzania: Factsheet... by Food & Business Knowledge Platform, NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The new model implemented by CARE in Iringa, Tanzania, and tested by the CSASuPER project bundles villages savings and loan associations (VSLAs), which provide agricultural finance with farmer field business schools (FFBSs), which deliver agricultural knowledge to groups of small-scale women farmers. …”
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CSA/CIS Bundle 1: Sustainable financing for off-grid solar irrigation: Using big data to provide user-centric financial solutions to scale end-to-end irrigation technologies and se... by Vitalite, Lupiya, Links, Lima

“…We will leverage Lima Links 111,000+ farmer user base to survey farmers and design a farmer-centric agri loan product ready to take to market (MVP). We will pre-finance procurement of 150 off-grid irrigation pumps and realize the sale and distribution of 250 pumps to farmers on pay-as-you-go payment plans. …”
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A new paradigm in the delivery of modernizing agricultural technologies across Africa by Woomer, P.L., Mulei, W., Zozo, R.

“…To date, TAAT has staged 88 interventions in 31 African countries, including the incorporation of customized technology toolkits within country loan projects of major development banks. Over three years, these efforts have reached about 10.6 million adopter households and increased food supply by 12 million tons worth over US $763 million, resulting in substantial improvements in smallholder farmer’s food supply (0.75 MT yr.−1) or income ($128 yr.−1). …”
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The livestock sector transformation in Ethiopia: the fundamental role of animal identification, registration, data recording and traceability systems by Gebreyohanes, Gebregziabher, Meseret, Selam, Tera, Asrat, Negussie, Enyew, Ojango, Julie M.K., Chinyere, Ekine, Mrode, Raphael A., Okeyo Mwai, Ally

“…The critical place of animal identification, registration and data recording as the basis for animal and animal product traceability, disease control, genetic improvement of farmers’ animals, annual planning, acquisition of bank loan and insurance are outlined. The need and values of adopting standardized identification system, establish a centralized database, and data capture tools are articulated. …”
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