This study examined the effect of financial intermediation by microfinance banks on output agricultural sector in Nigeria between 1992 and 2018. Data were collected this from secondary sources analyzed means inferential statistics. Specifically, employed Vector Error Correction model technique data analysis after establishing stationarity series Augmented Dickney-Fuller test determined long run...

1. Alewell, C., Egli, M., Meusburger, K., 2015. An attempt to estimate tolerable soil erosion rates by matching formation with denudation in Alpine grasslands. Journal of Soils and Sediments 15(6), 1383-1399. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368.... CrossRef Google Scholar

The Salinas River is the largest of the three rivers that drain into the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in central California (USA). Large areas of this watershed are cultivated year-round in row crops, and previous laboratory studies have demonstrated that acute toxicity of agricultural drain water to Ceriodaphnia dubia is caused by the organophosphate (OP) pesticides chlorpyrifos and ...

BACKGROUND A simulation model is used to explore the influence of biological, ecological, genetic and operational (management) factors on the probability and rate of glyphosate resistance in model weed species. RESULTS Glyphosate use for weed control prior to crop emergence is associated with low risks of resistance. These low risks can be further reduced by applying glyphosate in sequence wi...

This article examines the development of World Bank’s agricultural credit programming between 1960 and 1990. I show how these projects constituted key sites where neoliberal governance was initially articulated, negotiated, contested. Agricultural a point emphasis for Bank during its ‘Assault on Poverty’ era in 1970s. this reflected strong through marketisation commercialisation, yet also very ...

The Innovation Fund for Agricultural Transformation (IFAT) is a proposed in-country agricultural funding initiative to support the transformation of the agriculture sector in the developing countries in Africa, through the Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) concept. The IAR4D concept fosters the generation of innovations, sustainability of smallholder farmer’s livelihood, ...