Dong, H. & Liang, Q. 2023. Agro-food quality certification, agricultural organizations, and farm performance: evidence from vegetable farmers in China. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 21(1): 2205772.

Agro-food quality certification has been gaining greater importance, because it contributes to both agricultural sustainability and food quality. However, small-scale farmers in developing countries [...]

Weituschat, C.S., Pascucci, S., Materia, V.C. & Caracciolo, F. 2023. Can contract farming support sustainable intensification in agri-food value chains? Ecological Economics, 211: 107876.

Sustainable intensification aims to minimize the negative impacts of the current agricultural system while maintaining productivity and economic outputs. This study demonstrates that contract farming is [...]

Ni’mah, N. & Irham. 2023, January. Chili farmers’ willingness to continue keeping contract farming with agro-industry in Jember Regency. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 2583, No. 1, p. 110014). AIP Publishing LLC.

Price and production risks are the biggest problems faced by chili farmers in Jember. They reduce production and price [...]

Das, G., Bhattacharyya, R. & Marjit, S. 2023. Contract farming and food insecurity in an open competitive economy: growth, distribution, and government policy. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 16(4): 249.

The paper explores the emergence and consequence of contract farming as a new subsector of agriculture in a small open [...]

Dubbert, C., Abdulai, A. and Mohammed, S. 2023. Contract farming and the adoption of sustainable farm practices: Empirical evidence from cashew farmers in Ghana. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 45(1), pp.487-509.

Contract farming has been shown to increase agricultural productivity and thus welfare of farmers in developing countries. However, studies that [...]

Hoang, V. and Nguyen, V. 2023. Determinants of small farmers' participation in contract farming in developing countries: A study in Vietnam. Agribusiness.

This study aims to explore the determinants of farmers' participation in contract farming by using a qualitative approach and empirically assess the impact of the factors withdrawn from the [...]

Assassi, S. & Soullier, G. 2023. Do state-subsidized contractual arrangements improve farmers’ income? Empirical evidence from Algeria. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d’études du développement: 1–25.

To modernize agricultural value chains, some governments subsidize contract prices paid to farmers by private firms to encourage them to adopt [...]

Selorm, A., Sarpong, D.B.S., Egyir, I.S., Mensah Bonsu, A. & An, H. 2023. Does contract farming affect technical efficiency? Evidence from soybean farmers in Northern Ghana. Agricultural and Food Economics, 11(1): 9.

Understanding how and the extent to which contract farming arrangements impact agricultural productivity is important to ensuring that [...]

Malindretos, G., Sardianou, E. & Briana, M. 2023. Farmers’ Perception on Contract Farming in the Post-COVID Era: Empirical Study in Greece. Sustainability, 15(20): 14696.

Contract farming (CF) as a sustainable practice has expanded rapidly, bringing numerous benefits to both the agribusiness industry and farmers, as well as the broader economy; CF [...]

Toiba, H., Maulana Noor, A.Y., Rahman, M.S. & Riana, F.D. 2023. Farmers’ preference for organic rice contract farming scheme: a discrete choice experiment in Indonesia. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management: 1–24.

Contract farming schemes (CFSs) are essential for providing solutions for farmers due to their guaranteed prices, markets, and [...]