In September 2012, the Citi Foundation and the Rainforest Alliance undertook Farmer Bankability and Sustainable Finance: Farm-level Metrics that Matter, a study designed to better understand farmer capacity and performance with regard to financial administration, as well as any bankability...
To satisfy continued growth in food demand without further degrading the natural environment, African farmers and policy-makers must pursue ‘sustainable agricultural intensification’ (SAI). African governments and donors should invest in both institutions and infrastructure and follow a middle...
In Nigeria, credit access is a major problem among rural farming households due among others to lack of adequate collateral. The availability of social capital to households has been known to remove the problems associated with collateral hence improving the poor’s access to credit. This study...
This study uses survey data to examine the role of access to credit on cocoa production, in West African cocoa production countries under conditions of agricultural policy liberalization. It specifies and estimates econometric models to simulate the counterfactual of what cocoa production would...
Ever since the evolution of various economic reforms in Nigeria, that led to the abolition of commodity Boards and the introduction of free market pricing policy the sudden rush to cocoa trade due to higher pricing for cocoa led to increased number of people buying and marketing cocoa. As a...