Small-scale farmers face numerous challenges to invest in natural resource management practices. The problems are interlinked, with such perverse economic problems as high transaction costs and risk rooted in the lack of comprehensive institutional and organizational services to farmers for risk...

Financial cooperatives and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are the two major sources of rural finance in Ethiopia. Whereas MFIs are relatively new, financial cooperatives have existed for centuries in various forms. The coexistence of two different institutions serving the same group of people,...

Typical farm households in rural areas of developing countries allocate their labour resource among own-farm work and off-farm (market) activities in response to different factors. This study examines determinants of household demand for and supply of farm labour in rural western Ethiopia using...