[HTML][HTML] Barriers to the uptake of solar-powered irrigation by smallholder farmers in sub-saharan Africa: A review

N Durga, P Schmitter, C Ringler, S Mishra… - Energy Strategy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Irrigation expansion is critical for agricultural and rural development, food and nutrition
security, and climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Lack of accessible …

Potential impacts of the proposed EU regulation on deforestation-free supply chains on smallholders, indigenous peoples, and local communities in producer …

E Zhunusova, V Ahimbisibwe, A Sadeghi… - Forest policy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
According to the new European Commission proposal for a regulation on deforestation-free
products, six commodities-cattle, wood, palm oil, soy, cocoa, and coffee and their derivate …

Adoption and impacts of improved post-harvest technologies on food security and welfare of maize-farming households in Tanzania: a comparative assessment

C Mutungi, J Manda, S Feleke, A Abass, M Bekunda… - Food Security, 2023 - Springer
During the last decade, post-harvest losses (PHL) reduction has been topping the agenda of
governments as a pathway for addressing food security, poverty, and nutrition challenges in …

[HTML][HTML] Does cooperative membership facilitate access to credit for women farmers in rural Kenya?

R Ingutia, J Sumelius - Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Potential borrowers' demand for credit is restrained by agricultural risk, while microfinance
institutions favor male over female farmers because the latter have no collateral. We …

Typologies of South African small-scale farmers and their risk perceptions: an unsupervised machine learning approach

S Yazdan Bakhsh, K Ayisi, RP Rötter… - China Agricultural …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Small-scale farmers are highly heterogeneous with regard to their types of farming,
levels of technology adoption, degree of commercialization and many other factors. Such …

Impacts of credit constraints on adoption of risk management strategies and income of maize farmers in Northern Nigeria

A Ogunleye, MO Akinloye, A Kehinde… - Agricultural Finance …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose A correlation has been shown in the literature between credit constraints and the
adoption of agricultural technologies, technical efficiencies and measures for adapting to …

FinTech Development and Household Resilience to Negative Income Shocks: The Role of Informal Risk Sharing

R Li, J He - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigate the impact of FinTech development on household resilience to
negative income shocks from the perspective of informal risk sharing. We find that …

Determinants of financial inclusion gender gap in Ethiopia: Evidence from decomposition analysis

SK Hundie, DT Tulu - Cogent Business & Management, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In Ethiopia, the gender gap in financial inclusion is high, and the effect of socioeconomic
variables on the gap is not well investigated. The main objective of this study is to investigate …

Policy Note: Expanding Irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa

S Balasubramanya, U Lele - Water Economics and Policy, 2022 - World Scientific
Policymakers in Sub-Saharan Africa have placed considerable emphasis on expanding
irrigated agriculture. This is in response to the subcontinent's growing population pressure …

[PDF][PDF] Digitalization on Agricultural Business in Bangladesh

S Rahman - 2023 - theseus.fi
The goal of the study is to enable digitalization in Bangladesh's agriculture industry for
sustainable food security. We Illustrate a nation that has countless opportunities to improve …