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Contract farming is an important way to coordinate linkages between farmers and agribusiness, and has the potential for increasing the integration of smallholders into value chains. How can farmers be assisted with legal advice and dealing with the paperwork? How can trust be built and incentives created for honouring contracts [...]

Contract farming is an important and growing phenomenon. The term refers to pre-harvest arrangements between farmers and buyers that specify quality attributes, outlets, and delivery windows for products and compensation formulas for farmers. Contract farming provides challenges for existing statistical systems. Commodity price data may not be observed if farmers [...]

Contract farming is an important and growing phenomenon. The term refers to pre-harvest arrangements between farmers and buyers that specify quality attributes, outlets, and delivery windows for products and compensation formulas for farmers. Contract farming provides challenges for existing statistical systems. Commodity price data may not be observed if farmers [...]

The Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries Division of the FAO launched  the publication “Guiding Principles for Responsible Contract Farming Operations”. It is now available for download at the Contract Farming Resource Centre website.

Developed with inputs from experts and practitioners, the publication presents a set of principles that are conducive to responsible [...]

The site contents have been expanded with the inclusion of different presentations on contract farming issues, which are contributions of the Regional Workshop on Contract Farming organized by the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (MAFF) and the French Development Agency (AFD) held in Phnom Penh, Cambodiaon May 24^th, [...]

A new article on legal aspects of contract farming has been added to the site.

The contents of the Contract Farming Resource Centre have also been updated to include new examples of contracts inTanzania between farmers’ cooperatives and agribusiness companies covering tea and tobacco.

In addition, the site shows examples of farming [...]

The site contents have been expanded with the inclusion of around 50 new bibliographical references, covering contract farming issues in countries such as Cambodia, India, France, The Netherlands, UK, USA, South Africa, Cameroon, Thailand, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Vietnam and Mozambique.

The Contract Farming Resource Centre welcomes [...]

FAO continues collecting sample contract farming agreements in order to expand the information base on this issue, which can be freely accessed at our Contract Farming Resource Centre web site (www.fao.org/ag/ags/contract-farming)

We will be grateful if you can collaborate with us in this effort, by providing a copy of one [...]

The site contents have been revised and expanded with the inclusion of 17 new contract samples covering manioc, milk, fruits and vegetables, gherkins, paddy, pineapple, potato, rubber latex, tea leaf, tomato, roots and tubers, paprika, broiler and pepper in Cameroon, Fiji, Grenada, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jamaica, Malawi and Trinidad and [...]