This research explores the dependencies between community food security and local movements. We use a mixed methods approach that includes: analysis of 2.97 million pounds bank donations from 296 organizations, network system with 77 farms 439 market connections, 24 interviews donors staff. find strong ties producers, particularly producers are organic sell directly to public. Nearly half donat...

An attempt has been made in this study to examine the relationship between entrepreneurship financing from the perspective of agricultural small and medium scale enterprises and nation building in Nigeria from 1990 to 2017. Data were collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin with the application of Autoregressive Distributed Lagged and Bounds test to address the objective ...

Alternative measures of productive life (PL) were compared, and life expectancy factors were updated to replace estimates from 1993. Alternatives were proposed with extra credits for lactations longer than 10 mo and beyond 84 mo of age and for each calving so that an extremely long lactation would not receive more credits than multiple shorter lactations with dry periods between. Maximum credit...

Microfinance and micro credits are concepts that are used frequently when talking about poverty reducing actions. This paper is a case study of the poverty alleviation impacts of microfinance institutions and it contrasts the effects of Grameen Bank and Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) operating in Bangladesh. The case study examines the institutions’ effects in the 21st century si...

The wave of globalisation over the last decades finds its centre in the international financial system. The deregulation of financial markets led to an enormous amount of new innovations and an explosion of international capital flows. Deregulation of financial systems started in the developed world in the 1970s. However, with a time lag most developing countries and later the countries of the ...

T he topic of the “credit crunch” received considerable attention during the early 1990s. As a result, several initiatives aimed at eliminating regulatory disincentives to lending were put in place. For example, documentation requirements recently were reduced to the legal minimum for loans to small and medium-sized businesses. Also, examiners and bankers were encouraged to emphasize the charac...