Publications
Assessing benefits of supply chain integration using system dynamics methodology
01/01/2006
The driving force of effective Supply Chain Management (SCM) is integration among the channel members. With this in mind, the objective of this paper was planned. The research work models...
Website: Sachan, A., Sahay, B. S., & Mohan, R
Innovativeness scale towards contract farming
01/01/2006
Punjab government has started contract farming scheme from rabi season 2002-03. Under this scheme, the area is being shifted from rice and wheat to other high valued crops. Farmers entering...
Website: Rampal, V. K., & Gill, L. S.
Economic motivation scale towards contract farming
01/01/2006
Punjab government has started contract farming scheme from rabi season of 2002-03. Under this scheme, the area is being shifted from rice and wheat to other high valued crops. Farmers...
Website: Rampal, V. K., & Gill, L. S.
Changing plantation economy
01/01/2006
The literature on plantations and their repercussions on economy and society display a considerable variety of concepts and definitions. This paper distinguishes between a colonial, an imperialistic and a modern...
Website: Nuhn, H
Promoting indigenous entrepreneurship through small-scale contract farming: The poultry sector in Sarawak, Malaysia
01/01/2006
Studies have consistently shown that in the relatively unregulated environments of the global economic periphery contract farming has led to highly regressive socioeconomic outcomes. Contract farming is not inherently regressive...
Website: Morrison, P. S., Murray, W. E., & Ngidang, D.
Market and other factors affecting farm-specific production efficiency in poultry production in Vietnam
01/01/2006
Stochastic frontier production function was used to assess technical efficiency and its determinants for a stratified sample of 1118 poultry farms in Vietnam for which data were collected in 1999....
Website: Jabbar, M. A., & Akter, S.
Supply chain management assessment to improve the performance of contract farming between a multi national company and smallholders in East Java
01/01/2006
A collaborative research project financed by ACIAR in East Java (Indonesia) shows the success of contract farming between PT Pioneer (an MNC) and smallholder farmers in seed corn production. The...
Website: Irianto, B., Yuniarti, & Santoso, P.
From crop lien to contract farming: The roots of agribusiness in the American South: 1929-1939
01/01/2006
In 1929 rural sociologist Rupert Vance surveyed the southern landscape, seeing no end in sight to the cotton production that impoverished the South. In search of ways for cotton farmers...
Website: Gisolfi, M. R.
Farm characteristics of contract specialty grain producers
01/01/2006
This study examines the farmer and farm operations characteristics of producers growing specialty corn and soybeans under contract. By identifying the class of farmers participating in value-added grain production, a...
Website: Edleman, P. R.
Contract theory and agricultural policy analysis: a discussion and survey of recent developments
01/01/2006
This paper surveys some recent developments in contract theory and illustrates how this theory might be useful for conceptualising policy issues related to vertical coordination and contracting in the agro-food...
Website: Steven Y. Wu
Jointly managing cut flower - vegetable production systems in Benguet Province, Northern Philippines
01/01/2006
The Filipino cut flower industry is one of the country’s sunshine industries. It is regarded as a good area in which to invest as cut flower production is less landintensive...
Website: M K T Dagupen
Vertical coordination: contract production method to solve marketing problems in the rural areas
01/01/2006
Contract production, which has many advantages, is one of the methods of vertical coordination in the market to solve marketing problem and provide necessary inputs for small scale producers in...
Website: Arzu Secer, Muge Kantar Davran, Faruk Emeksiz
Self-Enforcing Contracts in Agriculture
01/01/2006
This article examines a self-enforcing contract between a risk-neutral principal and a risk-averse agent who is able to hold up values ex post. It shows that risk aversion and variance...
Website: Ola Kvaløy
Contract Farming as Means of Value-added Agriculture
01/01/2006
The study was to help define the applicability, equitability and enforceability of contract farming. It would attempt to identify crops and regions suited for contract farming, components of contracts, credit...
Towards a European code Napoleon/ABGB/BGB? Recent EC activities for a European contract law
01/01/2006
Contract law issues on European or international level have been studied for several decades in academic circles. Contract law issues and other questions affecting European private law have already been...
Website: Moritz Rottinger
Agricultural Contracting Update: Contracts in 2003
01/01/2006
Marketing and production contracts covered 39 percent of the value of U.S. agricultural production in 2003, up from 36 percent in 2001 and a substantial increase over estimated values of...
Website: James MacDonald and Penni Korb
Vertical Integration in the Pork Industry
01/01/2006
This article provides an economic explanation regarding why the share of U.S. pork raised on company-owned farms with hired management (integration) is increasing relative to production through independently owned-and-operated contract...
Website: Jeffrey J. Reimer
Political economy of regulation of broiler contracts
01/01/2006
In this paper, a brief history of regulation of broiler contracts is presented. The main characteristic of these contracts has been that virtually all regulatory attempts on either federal or...
Website: Tomislav Vukina and Porametr Leegomonchai
Communities and Markets for Rural Development under Globalization: A Perspective from Villages in Asia
01/01/2006
The major thrust of this paper is to show. that the trust and cooperation mechanisms existing in rural communities in developing economies can be a basis for efficient functioning of...
Website: Yujiro Hayami