Microcredit and the household food security of the fish farmers: evidence from rural Bangladesh

• Published in: Development in practice Vol. 32; no. 8; pp. 1091 - 1100
• Main Authors: Mahmud, Kazi Tanvir, Parvez, Asif, Ahmed, Shadman Sahir, Rafiq, Farhana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 17.11.2022; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Access; Access to credit; Bangladesh; Credit; expenditure; Expenditures; Farmers; Fish; food; Food security; Households; Microcredit; Microfinance; NGOs; Nongovernmental organizations; Rural poverty; security

The credit-constrained poor fish farmers in Bangladesh usually have limited access to formal credit institutions. As a result, NGOs took the effort to provide collateral-free microcredit support for the fish farmers to tide over their credit-related problems. This study empirically assesses the impa...