Governments, donors and responsible agricultural investors are increasingly looking to contract farming as a more inclusive business model for agricultural investment, and a tool with which to redress economic power imbalances in relationships between small-scale producers and agribusiness. The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) notes that [...]

Agriculture and rural development are key to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the majority of the world's poor and food insecure live in rural areas of developing countries. Unfortunately, the agricultural sector currently suffers from serious underinvestment, thus threatening the achievement of set development goals by [...]

A simple and pratical legal tool to support the implementation of global principles and guidelines that make responsible investment a reality. It is designed in such a way that addresses some of the inequalities in contract farming that disadvantage producers; to help create more equitable and sustainable business relationships as [...]

Le présent étude analyse  la mise en place de systèmes d’agriculture sous-contrat (ASC) dans la filière thé.

L’objectif est d’évaluer la capacité de l’ASC à lever une partie des contraintes qui continuent de peser sur la filière. Les résultats de l’étude permettent d’orienter la stratégie [...]

This report presents the lessons learned from a project in four East African countries – Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda – focusing on youth and their agribusinesses. In Burundi and Rwanda, poultry and eggs were sold to retailers but were also provided to schools to alleviate malnutrition. In Kenya [...]

On 22nd May 2018 the Government of Thailand released a new law to support contract farming in the country. The "Contract Farming Promotion and Development Act" will come into force in September 2018 and provide specific rules on the formulation of contracts as well dispute resolution and mediation mechanisms. The [...]

Mission to Sri Lanka in November 2017, under the project GCP/SRL/062/EC “European Union – Support to District Development Programme”: Delivering a training workshop on legal and operational aspects of contract farming and provide the inputs to improve the contract farming schemes for pineapple, green cucumber and manioc value chains as [...]

A training event was held in Tirana, Albania, from 10^th to 13^th of October 2017 to promote and disseminate the use of Contract Farming in selected value chains in Albania. The purpose of the mission was to organize and deliver a training workshop on operational and legal aspects of contract [...]

An intensive course on contract farming was held in Guatemala from the 18th to 21st of April 2017.

The project on South-South Cooperation Exchange between Lao PDR and Brazil was facilitated by FAO and the University of Viçosa (Brazil) in order to improve contract farming operations. Project objectives aimed at supporting policy makers as well as sharing of experiences, knowledge and technical guidance on the design of enabling [...]