Agricultural Input Credit in Sub-Saharan Africa

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dc.creatorAdjognon, Serge G.
dc.creatorLiverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O.
dc.creatorReardon, Thomas A.
dc.date2018-01-12T20:24:01Z
dc.date2018-01-12T20:24:01Z
dc.date2017-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:33:21Z
dc.descriptionRecent evidence shows that many Sub-Saharan African farmers use modern inputs, but there is limited information on how these inputs are financed. We use recent nationally representative data from four countries to explore input financing and the role of credit therein. A number of our results contradict “conventional wisdom” found in the literature. Our results consistently show that traditional credit use, formal or informal, is extremely low (across credit type, country, crop and farm size categories). Instead, farmers primarily finance modern input purchases with cash from nonfarm activities and crop sales. Tied output-labor arrangements (which have received little empirical treatment in the literature) appear to be the only form of credit relatively widely used for farming.
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dc.identifierFood Policy
dc.identifier0306-9192
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/29153
dc.identifier10.1596/29153
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/406003
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectFARM INPUTS
dc.subjectCREDIT
dc.subjectNONFARM EMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectRURAL NONFARM EARNINGS
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE
dc.titleAgricultural Input Credit in Sub-Saharan Africa
dc.titleTelling Myth from Facts
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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