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Fair Markets and Resilient Supply Chains: Designing Sustainable Intermediation for Rural Communities

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture in Ecuador's communes faces significant economic, social, and environmental challenges, intensified by supply chains dominated by traditional intermediaries. The lack of context‐specific sustainability studies further increases the vulnerability of smallholders.
Jacqueline del Rocío Bacilio Bejeguen, Verónica Ramírez Cortés, Larissa Paola Gabriel Macedo Castro, Raquel Santiago Romo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Household Access to Microcredit and Children's Food Security in Rural Malawi: A Gender Perspective [PDF]

Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit ...
Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb, Hazarika, Gautam   +1 more
core   +3 more sources

Investigating the Role of Microcredit on Agricultural Output in Rural-Bangladesh [PDF]

Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management
Microcredit or Microfinance is being considered as one of the investment-sources for local farmers who want to cultivate their land. It is highly difficult for local-farmers to collect fund for field-level investment, these farmers select micro-credit ...
Md. Imrul Hasan, Tanbir Hossain, Sree. Dip Kumar Moholdar, Md. Sohel Rana   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Dynamic Impact of the Energy Transition on Food Security in Developing Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of persistent food insecurity and the global push for the transition toward clean energy in developing countries, understanding the association between clean energy access and food affordability is increasingly important to inform multisectoral policy interventions. Against this background, this study explores the dynamic impact
Boris D. Soh Wenda, Thierry M. Pondie, Aissatou Ndiaye, Götz Uckert, Katharina Löhr, Stefan Sieber   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Microcredit on Women's Control over Household Spending in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis

Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2014
The main objective of this Campbell systematic review was to provide a systematic review of the evidence on the effects of microcredit on women's control over household spending in developing countries.
Jos Vaessen, Ana Rivas, Maren Duvendack, Richard Palmer Jones, Frans Leeuw, Ger vanGils, Ruslan Lukach, Nathalie Holvoet, Johan Bastiaensen, Jorge Garcia Hombrados, Hugh Waddington   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Il Microcredito istituzionale. Un nuovo ruolo per l’azione pubblica

Cambio, 2022
In a period of repeated economic crises, access to traditional credit channels for those unable to provide personal or capital guarantees has proved particularly complex.
Antonello Podda
doaj   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Much effort, little impact: the politics of public microcredit programs in Malawi

Cogent Social Sciences
This paper contributes to locating the Malawian dynamics into an emerging discourse that argues that current microcredit programs are ineffective because they have become an instrument for serving international and domestic actors’ interests.
Richard Zidana, Bryson Nkhoma, Victor Kasulo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does microcredit use helps farmers win battle against food insecurity: evidence from Jimma zone of Southwest Ethiopia

Agriculture & Food Security, 2021
Background Lack of access to credit precludes smallholder farmers from making investment that generates greater level of income, consumption and wealth.
Amanuel Berhanu, Abayineh Amare, Birki Gurmessa, Yadeta Bekele, Tamiru Chalchisa   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond recurrent costs: an institutional analysis of the unsustainability of donor-supported reforms in agricultural extension [PDF]

, 2011
International donors have spent billions of dollars over the past four decades in developing and/or reforming the agricultural extension service delivery arrangements in developing countries.
Gray, D, Islam, M, Kelly, T, Kemp, P, Reid, J   +4 more
core   +2 more sources