Contract farming in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities and Challenges

21/06/2019

Small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, like those in other developing regions, face a number of constraints that limit their productivity. First, they lack information about production methods and market opportunities, particularly for...

Website: Nicholas Minot

Determinants of the farm gate price of milk: quantifying the impact of milk contract and selling arrangements

21/06/2019

Recent variability in farm gate milk prices has led to increased interest in milk selling arrangements. Analysing data for 220 conventional English dairy producers reveals significant differences in the milk...

Website: Wilson, P.

Contracting in the livestock sector - the new measures: benefits and risks [French]

21/06/2019

After defining the concept of contracting, this paper analyses the practical arrangements for its implementation in the livestock sector, the reasons for its promotion by the French government, and the...

Website: Sans, P.

Cross-Border Contract Farming Arrangement: Variations and Implications in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

21/06/2019

This paper presents the variations and implications of contract farming arrangements in three case studies—cabbage, maize, and sugarcane—in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The variations in contract farming...

Website: Kanokwan Manorom, David Hall, Xing Lu, Suchat Katima, Maria Theresa Medialdia, Singkhon Siharath, and Pinwadee Srisuphan

Contract Farming in Odisha: Prospects & Constraints

21/06/2019

Contract farming is one of the illustrated examples of the impact of globalization and liberalized economic policy in the agriculture sector. While the farm sector is facing an identity crisis...

Website: Bikash Rath

Contract Farming Checklist: a tool for reflection on critical issues in contract farming arrangements in developing countries

27/06/2019

Investors that plan to work with contract farming in developing countries face opportunities and risks. The investor provides a market outlet and often some inputs and training services to farmers; the...

Website: Giel Ton & Jennie van der Mheen-Sluijer

Linking small-scale farmers to the durum wheat value chain in Ethiopia: Assessing the effects on production and wellbeing

27/06/2019

Food security and agricultural-led industrialisation are pivotal development objectives in Ethiopia. One of the main challenges this country faces is increasing agricultural productivity by integrating smallholder farmers into a high-value...

Website: Biggeri, M. Burchi, F. Ciani, F. Herrmann, R.

Linking small horticultural producers with markets: Indian experiences and lessons

27/06/2019

Linking small producers with markets has been identified as one of the major issues in policy and practice in improving livelihoods for millions of poor in the developing world....

Website: Singh, S.

Agricultural extension and imperfect supervision in contract farming: evidence from Madagascar

27/06/2019

This article tests whether agricultural extension and imperfect supervision - conflated here into the number of visits by a technical assistant - increase productivity in a sample of contract farming...

Website: Bellemare, M. F.

Expert Consultation on Contract Farming in Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa 04-07 May 2009)

27/06/2019

Website: National Agricultural Marketing Council

Is contract broiler farming exploitative to small farmers?

27/06/2019

A study of 49 contract broiler farmers under 4 leading integrators in and around Puducherry revealed that the contract is one sided favouring the integrator as the contract stipulates standards...

Website: Thamizhselvi, R. K.; Rao, S. V. N.

Induced institutional transition of contract farming in Shandong Province

27/06/2019

This article describes the process of institutional transition of contract farming in Shandong Province. The changes in preparatory stage of contract farming express in: One, the information asymmetry of the...

Website: Sun BaoChun

Baby corn production under a contract farming system [Thai/English]

27/06/2019

The objectives of this research were to compare the production costs and returns between contract and non-contract farming systems of baby corn production, and to analyze the procurement costs of...

Website: Limsombunchai, V.; Kao-ian, S.

Aligning incentives for contract dairy heifer growth

27/06/2019

As dairy farms grow and specialize in milking cows, raising replacement heifers is increasingly outsourced. Perhaps the largest challenge of outsourcing the heifer enterprise involves quality, measured as milk production...

Website: Olynk, N. J.; Wolf, C. A.

Characteristics and determinants of contract design of wheat seed farming in India: a basis of decision making

27/06/2019

This study examines (i) the extent to which characteristics of contract design are responsible for differences between public and private contract designs, (ii) the comparative adaptability of the prevailing public...

Website: Shiv Kumar; Puran Chand; Dabas, J. P. S.; Harvinder Singh

Adapting the quad-partite model of contract farming for industrial agroforestry

27/06/2019

A quad-partite model of contract farming involving research institutes, farmers, industries and financial institutions was developed. The model introduced the concept of public-private partnership, and offers long-term benefits to both...

Website: Parthiban, K. T.; Vennila, S.; Seenivasan, R.; Anbu, P. V.; Rao, M. G.

Allocation of Decision Rights in Fruit and Vegetable Contracts in China

27/06/2019

This paper empirically examines the determinants of the allocation of decision rights in the context of fruit and vegetable contracting. A multiple case study is used to investigate twelve fruit...

Website: Yamei Hu, George Hendrikse

Agricultural contracts and alternative marketing options: a matching analysis

27/06/2019

The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of...

Website: Katchova, A. L.

Contract farming approach to essential oil production in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa

27/06/2019

Based on empirical evidence from small scale growers and a processor, this study evaluated contract farming of rose geranium (Pelagonium graveoleus) production in a rural setting of Eastern Cape Province...

Website: Adewumi, M. O. Afolayan, A. J. Masika, P. J.

Ethiopian commodity exchange and contract farming arrangements: Complementing institutions

27/06/2019

Once a commercial trading hub in antiquity linking markets of East and West, Ethiopia wishes to reclaim a place in the global market arena. As such the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX)...

Website: Mheen-Sluijer, J.