Contracts and contract farming as potential mechanisms to improve market access for black farmers in South Africa

31/12/2006

The objective of this report is to demonstrate how the South African agribusiness sector can contribute to the transformation of the commercial farm sector by expanding the volume of procured... N/A

Website: Kurt Sartorius and Johann Kirsten

Contract farming in Thailand: A view from the farm

31/12/2007

The study presents an initial assessment of the situation and to raise the main issues in terms of farmers' and workers' rights. It is part of a long term process... https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/esswpaper/id_3a2340.htm

Website: Isabelle Delforge

Investment contracts and sustainable development: How to make contracts for fairer and more sustainable natural resource investments

31/12/2010

Economic liberalisation, improved transport and communication systems, and the global demand for energy, minerals and agricultural commodities have fostered natural resource investment in many lower- and middle-income countries. Increased investment... https://www.iied.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/migrate/17507IIED.pdf

Website: Lorenzo Cotula

The business model to provide sustainable development of farmer in agriculture sector: Contract farming

31/12/2010

This paper highlights a few successful cases of contract farming in India and discusses the history, objectives, and types of contract farming as well as its benefits to farmers, firms...

Website: Naresh Patel

A seasonal model of contracts between a monopsonistic processor and smallholder pepper producers in Costa Rica

31/12/2009

We model the contractual arrangements between smallholder pepper (Piper nigrum L.) producers and a single processor in Costa Rica. Producers in the El Roble settlement sell their pepper to only... https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2009.08.002

Website: Fernando Sáenz-Segura, Marijke D’Haeseb and Robert A. Schipperb

The contracts between leading agribusiness enterprises and rural households: Its effects on firm-level export of agricultural products

31/12/2010

In this paper, transaction cost is introduced into the general firm-level export behavior model. By so doing, we constructed a theoretical model to explain how connection modes between leading agribusiness...

Website: Peng Chao; Zeng YinChu; Huang Bo; Yabe, M.

The status of contract farming in Malawi

31/12/2005

To establish an agrarian economy that ensures food and nutrition security to its growing population, raw material for an expanding industrial base, surpluses for export and a fair an a... https://search.worldcat.org/it/title/status-of-contract-farming-in-malawi/oclc/1091743130

Understanding institutional arrangements for improved market access in Africa: how to explain seemingly irrational causes of success and failure

31/12/2010

Economists struggle with predicting what makes an institutional arrangement successful for market access in Africa. According to New Institutional Economics theory, the rational farmer will chose to engage in the... https://brill-com.fao.idm.oclc.org/edcollchap/book/9789086866991/BP000022.xml

Website: Huylenbroeck, G. van; D'Haese, M.; Foundjem-Tita, D.; Viaene, J.

Contracts, hold-up, and exports: Textiles and opium in colonial India

31/12/2008

Trade and export, it is argued, spin economic growth. This paper studies the microeconomics of exporting. We build a heuristic model of transactions between exporters and producers and relate it... https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.98.3.967

Website: Rachel Kranton, Anand V Swamy

Contract farming and agricultural development: A case study of Orissa

31/12/2009

In the recent era of rapid economic changes, slow agricultural growth has become a major area of concern in academic and public domains. In order to galvanize this sector, there... https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/contract-farming-agricultural-development-case/docview/196351680/se-2

Website: Braja Bandhu Swain

Making the most of agricultural investment: A survey of business models that provide opportunities for smallholders

31/12/2010

Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in agricultural investment. In many cases, this has translated into large-scale acquisitions of farmland in lower- and middle-income countries. Partly as a result... http://pubs.iied.org/12566IIED.html

Website: Lorenzo Cotula, Sonja Vermeulen

Upgrading small-holders in the Vietnamese Pangasius value chain

31/12/2010

Vietnamese grown Pangasianodon hypopthalmus (pangasius or striped catfish) has emerged as one of the most successful globally traded aquaculture products. The diversification of international markets has led to the rapid growth... https://www.fao.org/uploads/media/UpgradingPangasiusFINAL.pdf

Website: Nguyen Tri Khiem and Simon R. Bush

Why do small-scale producers choose to produce under contract? Lessons from nontraditional vegetable exports from Zimbabwe

31/12/2005

This article explores the motivations behind the decision of small-scale producers to grow nontraditional vegetables under contract for export. Based on a survey of small-scale producers in Zimbabwe, four factors are... https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.04.016

Website: OLIVER MASAKURE and SPENCER HENSON

Efficiency and distribution in contract farming: The case of Indian poultry growers

31/12/2005

This paper is an empirical analysis of the gains from contract farming in the case of poultry production in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. The paper finds that contract production... https://www.isid.ac.in/~planning/workingpapers/dp05-01.pdf

Website: Bharat Ramaswami, Pratap Singh Birthal, and P.K. Joshi

Contract farming: problems, prospects and its effect on income and employment

31/12/2008

This farm-level study conducted in the Tumkur district of Karnataka state has reported the effect of contract farming on income and employment generation and has identified constraints in and prospects... 10.22004/ag.econ.47678 https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/47678

Website: Jagdish Kumar and Prakash Kumar K.

Farming with contractors

31/12/2007

This publication intends to inform agricultural valuers about contract farming in the UK. It offers guidance for analysing whether contract farming is the route that best serves a client's objectives....

Website: UK, Central Association of Agricultural Valuers

Is geographic diversification sufficient to limit contract grower risk?

31/12/2009

This article determines whether geographic diversification would be sufficient as a risk management tool for institutions that lend to farmers, to limit their credit risk. https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/agreko/49163.html

Website: Geyser, M.; Louw, A.; Botha, L.

Use and employment pattern in hybrid sunflower seed production under contract farming - a case study in Haveri district

31/12/2011

A study was carried out to assess the pattern of input use and employment in hybrid sunflower seed production under contract farming in Haveri district of Karnataka. Seed production activity... N/A

Website: Sandigodamath, N. M. Hugar, L. B. Malligawad, L. H.

Contract farming to minimize market risk in coleus risk in coleus cultivation: a study in Salem District

31/12/2007

Based on data collected during June 2005 from a sample of 60 farmers (30 contract and 30 non-contract growers), this study analyses the costs, returns and risks in coleus (Coleus...

Website: Venkatram, R.; Venkatesan, S.

The role of trust in contract enforcement: an analysis of smallholder farmers and sugar millers in Swaziland

31/12/2009

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Website: Masuku, M. B.