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In recent years, Greece experiences a very intensive financial crisis that -as it is expected has important effects on the primary sector. Α new form of entrepreneurship for Greece, contract farming, appeared the last years. A successful case study of contract farming in Greece is between the large enterprise “ATHENIAN BREWERY” [...]
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Year: 2018
This article reviews the literature on contract farming (CF) in India and assesses the impact of smallholders’ perceived production risks on the adoption of CF; the impact of CF on smallholders’ food security; and its impact on employment generation in their farming enterprises. We also show the impact of the [...]
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Year: 2018
En 2015, conscientes de la importancia de aumentar el conocimiento y la toma de conciencia sobre el sistema jurídico aplicable a las operaciones de agricultura por contrato, el Instituto Internacional de Unificación del Derecho Privado (UNIDROIT), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y [...]
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Year: 2017
This brief aims to help farmer leaders, farmer organizations and facilitators working with smallholders to achieve a correct understanding of the legal and operational aspects of contract farming. It is based on information extracted from the Legal Guide on Contract Farming (UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD, 2015), and from field experience in the implementation of [...]
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Year: 2017
This brief aims to help regulators and policymakers to achieve a correct understanding of the legal aspects of contract farming (CF).It is based on information extracted from the Legal Guide on Contract Farming (UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD, 2015), and from field experience in the implementation of contract farming projects by the Food and Agriculture [...]
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Year: 2017
La presente Guía es obra de un Grupo de trabajo establecido por el UNIDROIT, que reunió a expertos jurídicos de prestigio internacional, a organizaciones multilaterales asociadas y a representantes de la comunidad agrícola y los agronegocios. En el proceso de elaboración del documento participaron representantes de las partes interesadas, funcionarios [...]
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Year: 2017
In 2015, mindful of the importance of enhancing knowledge and awareness of the legal regime applicable to contract farming operations, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) released the [...]
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Year: 2017
The purpose of this brief is to highlight the main legal elements and principles to be considered in the design of farming contracts which are instruments that regulate contract farming operations. The legal elements and principles presented below are applicable to different national systems and may be employed in the [...]
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Year: 2017
En 2015, conscients de l'importance de mieux faire connaître le régime juridique applicable aux opérations d'agriculture contractuelle, l'Institut international pour l'unification du droit privé (UNIDROIT), l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) et le Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA) ont préparé un Guide juridique sur l'agriculture contractuelle [...]
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Year: 2017
The focus in this paper is on two relatively large maize-based CF schemes with fixed input packages (Masara and Akate) and a number of smaller and more flexible CF schemes in a remote region in Ghana (Upper West). Results show that these schemes led to improved technology adoption and yield [...]
Organization: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Year: 2017