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Women-led community-based rice seed entrepreneurship model in Bangladesh: Status, challenges and opportunities by Nuruzzaman, Islam, Afrad Md Safiul, Haque, Md. Enamul, Nahar, Ashrafun, Habib, Muhammad Ashraful, Nayak, Swati, Islam, Saidul, Rashid, Md. Mamunur, Biswas, Amlan

“…Popular suggestions put forward included means to lessen the cost of agricultural inputs, provision of loans with easy terms and conditions, and training programs…”
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Hur väljer unga blivande jord- och skogsägare bank när ett ägarskifte ska genomföras på fastigheten? by Nobel, Axel

The effect of membership in producer organizations on women's empowerment: Evidence from Kenya by Mwambi, M., Bijman, J., Galiè, Alessandra

“…We find that when a household joins any PO, regardless of whether the man or the woman in the household is the registered member, women achieve a higher control over production decisions, buying and selling of land and cows, use of loans and receiving dairy income. Distinguishing by gender of membership, there is stronger women empowerment when the woman in the household is a member. …”
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Data Descriptor: Smart subsidies for catchment conservation in Malawi by Bell, Andrew Reid, Ward, Patrick S., Mapemba, Lawrence, Nyirenda, Zephania, Msukwa, Wupe, Kenamu, Edwin

“…Baseline and endline questions included modules on farm-level inputs and production at the plot-crop level; plot characteristics; household composition and assets; savings, loans, and other sources of income; neighborhood characteristics; and perceptions regarding CA. …”
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Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments by Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Linxiu, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Notably, spending on irrigation and anti-poverty loans had minimal impact. The report discusses the implications of these findings for setting future priorities for government investment. …”
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Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments [In Chinese] by Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Linxiu, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Notably, spending on irrigation and anti-poverty loans had minimal impact. The report discusses the implications of these findings for setting future priorities for government investment. …”
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China's development of a plantation-based wood pulp industry: government policies, financial incentives, and investment trends by Barr, C., Cossalter, C.

“…It is doing so by providing discounted loans from state banks, fiscal incentives, and capital subsidies for establishment of at least 5.8 million hectares of fast-growing pulpwood plantations. …”
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Climate-Smart Cocoa: a gender transformative approach by Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan, Torvikey, Gertrude Dzifa, Amoah, Alvin, Saeed, Abdul Razak, Obeng, Faustina, Kofituo, Rich Kofi, Asare, Richard

“…This should include the use of multiple dissemination channels such as community information centres, Farmer Based Organisations (FBOs), info graphics, local radio, storytelling, community durbars, festivals, religious activities and theatre among others. c) Integrate climate change and variability information in extension service delivery iii) Initiate affirmative action programmes through ensuring that the leadership of producer-based organisations in communities have women in leadership positions. iv) Promote safe traditional and modern savings and loans schemes to encourage savings and to enhance access to loans in times of shock. a) Support local credit schemes with resources to function in ways that promote equity and equality. …”
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Making index-based flood insurance socially inclusive in Bangladesh: challenges and options by Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M., de Silva, Sanjiv, Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali

“…Lack of compensation or other buffering mechanisms means crop losses give rise to deepening cycles of debt, especially when cultivation is financed through loans. While neighboring India has developed strong policy and strategic direction for using risk transfer mechanisms, such as Weather Index Insurance (WII), as a disaster risk reduction tool, policy support in Bangladesh is lukewarm. …”
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Non-farm enterprises: Strengthening youth resilience in 18 rural districts of Zimbabwe by Tirivanhu, Doreen, Chevo, Tafadzwa, Mapangisana, Toga

“…The results show that youths participate mainly in nontimber forest products, natural resource management, water infrastructure development, DRM/ DRR training, welding, cross-border trading, sewing, and village savings and loans groups, which were important for their adaptive, absorptive, and transformative capacities. …”
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Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey (PRHPS), 2012 by International Food Policy Research Institute, Innovative Development Strategies

“…This survey collected information on a large number of topics, such as sources of income, nature of employment, consumption patterns, time use, assets and savings, loans and credit, education, migration, economic shocks, participation in social safety nets, and household aspirations. …”
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Rural Finance Policies 7 - Rural financial services for poverty alleviation: the role of public policy by Sharma, Manohar, Zeller, Manfred

“…In rural areas of developing countries, short-term loans or past savings are often used to provide basic necessities when household incomes decline temporarily — after a bad harvest or between agricultural seasons, for example....Successful financial outreach to the rural poor requires institutional innovations that reduce the risks and costs of lending small amounts of money. …”
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Impact of the adoption of technological innovation on the credit acquisition of rice farmers in Senegal: A propensity score matching technique by Chioma-Akalugo Ogwuike, P., Obinna Ogwuike, C., Arouna, A.

“…Mainly, this study seeks to verify the argument that the adoption of technologies that increase factor productivity and production capacity eventually leads to the ability (and desire) of adopters to borrow more due to enhanced operations and confidence in their ability to repay loans. This paper uses primary data collected from 194 adopters and nonadopters of the ASI thresher in the Senegal River Valley. …”
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Innovation packages and scaling readiness workshop for smallholder famers mechanization starter pack, Zimbabwe: An activity report by Ijudai Jasada, Md Abdul Matin, Thierfelder, Christian, Mhlanga, Blessing, Louw-Nora, Hanke, Faju, Rose, Shiela Chikulo

“…The existing service delivery model involves prospective service providers (SPs) buying the starter pack from local manufacturers with funding acquired through various financing support including loans through a commercial bank (BancABC) or leasing through Ukama Ustawi or other projects. …”
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Examining institutional credit access among agricultural households in Eastern India: Trends, patterns and determinants by Kumar, Anjani, Das, Raya, Aditya, K. S., Bathla, Seema, Jha, Girish K.

“…Cragg's double-hurdle model and the Heckman selection model are used to estimate the determinants of access to and the amount of institutional loans taken by households. These models also account for potential selection bias in the findings.The study reveals that access to credit is strongly associated with the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of agricultural households. …”
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Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey (PRHPS) 2014, Round 3 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The survey collected information on a large number of topics including sources of income, nature of employment, consumption patterns, time use, assets and savings, loans and credit, education, migration, women decision making, economic shocks, transfers in and out, health and nutrition, and participation in social safety nets. …”
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Nigeria land governance reform: What needs to be done to stimulate demand and support market growth? by Ghebru, Hosaena, Kennedy, Adam

“…Third, it reduces asymmetric information about land ownership rights, allowing individuals to use their land as collateral for loans encouraging investment. Less than 3 percent of the land in Nigeria is formally registered leaving the vast majority of the population to deal with tenure insecurity and its attendant negative implications on land related investment and agricultural productivity. …”
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Distribution, growth, and performance of microfinance institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by Lapenu, Cecile, Zeller, Manfred

“…The total savings volume is $12 billion, or 72 percent of the volume of the outstanding loans. MFIs have developed at least 46,000 branches and employ around 175,000 staff. …”
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Distribution, growth, and performance of microfinance institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by Lapenu, Cecile, Zeller, Manfred

“…The total savings volume is $12 billion, or 72 percent of the volume of the outstanding loans. MFIs have developed at least 46,000 branches and employ around 175,000 staff. …”
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Impact of access to credit on income and food security in Malawi by Diagne, Aliou

“…Moreover, the beneficial substitution effect reflects only the fact that reduced borrowing from informal sources makes informal loans play a lesser role in the negative impact that borrowing (from formal or informal sources) has on net crop incomes. …”
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