Financial institutions and trends in sustainable agriculture : synergy in rural sub-Saharan Africa / Emmanuel Olatunbosun Benjamin. [2015]
Content
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Objective and research question
- 1.3 Climate, productivity and sub-Saharan Africa agriculture
- 1.4 Agricultural credit and investment in sub-Saharan Africa
- 1.5 Methodology
- 1.6 Institutional setting and scale
- 1.7 Reading Guide
- Chapter 22F(: Participation of smallholders in carbon-certified small-scale agroforestry: A lesson from the rural Mount Kenyan region
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Material and methods
- 2.3 Potential determinants for participation in agroforestry with PES
- a) Farm size
- b) Farm elevation
- c) Distance to market
- d) Labor supply
- e) Access to credit
- f) Interest rate
- g) Age of famer
- h) Education
- i) Information and communication technology (ICT)
- 2.4 Data
- 2.5 Empirical results
- 2.6 Conclusion
- Chapter 34F(: Financial Lending and Investment in Sustainable Small-Scale Agribusiness in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Carbon Sequestration and welfare Benefits
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Trends in sub-Saharan rural credit institutions
- 3.2.1 Institutional expansion and profitability
- 3.2.2 Deposit
- 3.2.3 Regulation (Risk Management)
- 3.2.4 Technology
- 3.3 Credit institution´s agricultural lending and sustainable investment in sub-Saharan Africa
- 3.4 Sustainable agriculture opportunities for sub-Saharan credit institutions
- 3.5 Policy implication
- 3.6 Conclusion
- Chapter 45F(: Adverse Selections and Microfinance in Rural Africa: Signaling through Environmental Services
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Literature review
- 4.3 Adverse selection theoretical framework
- 4.4 Environmental services as a signaling tool
- 4.5 Policy implication
- 4.6 Conclusion
- Appendix
- Chapter 56F(: Credit risk modeling and sustainable agriculture: Asset evaluation and rural carbon revenue
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Literature review
- 5.2.1. Issues and challenges of agricultural micro-financing
- 5.2.2. Impact of agricultural conservation and sustainability practices on smallholders
- 5.2.3. Pricing Environmental Services
- 5.3 Model
- 5.3.1 Evaluation of the market value and volatility of assets
- 5.3.2 Distance-to-Default
- 5.3.3 Mapping DD to historical default and bankruptcy
- 5.3.4 Black–Scholes Option Pricing Model and PD Calculation
- 5.4 Data
- 5.5 Result
- 5.5.1 Distance to default without environmental services
- 5.5.2 Distance to default with environmental services
- 5.6 Conclusion
- Appendix
- Chapter 67F(: Certified conservation farming: a strategy to overcome smallholder’s credit constraints?
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Theoretical Model
- 6.3 Data and Variables
- 6.4 Empirical analysis
- 6.5 Research shortfalls
- 6.6 Conclusion
- Appendix
- Chapter 7: Conclusion and Policy implication
- 7.1 Summary of results
- 7.2 Policy recommendation
- 7.3 Recommendation for future research
- References