Publications
Contract Agriculture Lessons from experiences in Costa Rica
01/01/2006
Contract farming or contract agriculture is a practice by which agro-industrial processors, exporters, domestic suppliers to supermarkets and other interested actors contract primary production with producers. The practice has grown...
Website: Carlos Pomareda
Contracting in agriculture empirical evidence from barley production in Ukraine
01/01/2006
This paper investigates the issue of economic interaction between the participants of the contract. A typical principal-agent problem, reflected in controversial goals on the way of fulfillment of the common...
Website: Daryna Grechyna
Contract farming in India - an introduction
01/02/2006
Contract farming is a joint venture between a farmer and a firm for producing and marketing farm products. The contracting firm vertically integrates the food chain to capture the benefits...
Website: Rajmanohar T P and Kumaravel K S (eds)
Twilight on self-regulation: A socio-legal evaluation of conservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity by industry self-regulation
01/01/2007
This paper evaluates how the principles of transparency, separation of powers and participation are integrated in the structure of the self-regulations. The lack of transparency with regard to all three...
Website: Van Amstel-Van Saane, M.H.J.W
Spillovers from high-value agriculture for exports on land use in developing countries: Evidence from Madagascar
01/01/2007
High-value agriculture for exports is increasingly important in developing countries. In a case study of contract farming for exports of vegetables from Madagascar, strong spillover effects of these trade opportunities...
Website: Minten, B., Randrianarison, L., and Swinnen, J
Market developments in pork production: An economic analysis of the vertical commitment in the supply chain
01/01/2007
In recent years the inclusion of farmers in integrated supply chains has been one of the main research topics in agribusiness. Many researchers have pleaded for a stronger vertical binding...
Website: Spiller, A., and Schulze, B
Globalization, privatization, and vertical coordination in food value chains in developing and transition countries
01/01/2007
Food and agricultural commodity value chains in developing and transition countries have undergone tremendous changes in the past decades. Companies and property rights have been privatized, markets liberalized, and economies...
Website: Swinnen, J.F.M., and Maertens, M
Loose Fruit Mamas: Creating Incentives for Smallholder Women in Oil Palm Production in Papua New Guinea
01/01/2007
This paper presents a case study of the introduction of a more gender equitable payment scheme for oil palm smallholders in Papua New Guinea. Women are now paid separately from...
Website: Koczberski, G
Contract production as a method to reduce welfare loss caused by market uncertainty of seed potato
01/01/2007
The aim of this study is to show whether contract production between seed and food potato producers lessens market uncertainty, reduce welfare losses for both parties and increase efficiency in...
Website: Tuomisto, J
Reverse leasing and power dynamics among blue agave farmers in western Mexico
01/01/2007
This article examines changing production relations in the Mexican tequila industry to explore the ways in which large industrial firms are using "reverse leasing arrangements," a form of contract farming,...
Website: Bowen, S., and Gerritsen, P.R.W
Corporate and cooperative solutions for the agrarian crisis in developing countries
01/01/2007
This article discusses credit and marketing arrangements for small farmers in developing countries. The authors draw on the mixed experience with agricultural cooperatives in developing countries to present the design...
Website: Motiram, S., and Vakulabharanam, V
The econometric analysis of tomato production with contracting in Turkey
01/01/2007
Turkey is the largest grower of processing tomatoes in the world after the US, Italy, China and Spain. Growing tomatoes for sauce is one of the two major uses of...
Website: Gunes, E
Agricultural development, contract farming and Ghana's oil palm industry
01/01/2007
This article traces the development of the oil palm industry in Ghana and its contribution to agricultural development Drawing on the example of the Ghana Oil Palm Development Corporation (GOPDC)...
Website: Huddleston, P., and Tonts, M
Contract farming: Theory and practice in the 21st century
01/01/2007
In the past few years, contract farming (CF) has emerged as an important strategy for vertical coordination of procurement operations by agribusiness firms, as well as for policy for agricultural...
Website: Singh, S
Contract farming for organic crop production in India
01/01/2007
There is an increasing demand throughout world for organic food and fibre. In India, efforts are being made for organic crop production through contract farming. Experiences showed that farmers are...
Website: Gahukar, R.T
Contract Selectivity, Food Safety, and Traceability
01/01/2007
Contracts are an increasingly common method for coordinating exchange in the food industry. Contracts often include specifications for product attributes including food safety. One of the goals of explicit safety...
Website: S. Andrew Starbird & Vincent Amanor-Boadu
Rural Partnerships between Small Farmers and Private Commercial Sector: The case of Colombia
01/01/2007
The Productive Partnership Support Program promotes the establishment of productive partnerships between organized small farmers and the private commercial sector, with the support of different stakeholders (public entities, NGOs and...
Website: Adriana Bello Barrantes
Trade, Standards, and Poverty: Evidence from Senegal
01/01/2007
An emerging literature on standards, global supply chains, and development argues that enhanced quality and safety standards are major trade barriers for developing country exports and cause the marginalization of...
Website: Miet Maertens and Johan F.M. Swinnen
Linking Upper Egyptian Smallholders to the High-Value EU Market: Approaches and Lessons Learned
01/01/2007
In late 2003, under a USAID-funded grant, CARE began working with the Ministry of Agriculture in Upper Egypt to select more than 100 farming communities that have progressive leaders who...
Website: Thomas J. Herlehy
Modern Market Information System boosts incomes of Ukraine's small & medium sized growers
01/01/2007
The Market Information System (MIS) created by the Agricultural Marketing Project (AMP) jointly with its Ukrainian subcontractor APK-Inform helped boost sales and profits of small and medium sized growers, and...
Website: Andriy Yarmak