Benitez‐Altuna, F., Materia, V.C., Bijman, J., Gaitán‐Cremaschi, D. & Trienekens, J. 2023. Farmer–buyer relationships and sustainable agricultural practices in the food supply chain: The case of vegetables in Chile. Agribusiness: agr.21829.

This study investigates how the relationship between farmers and buyers affects the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) in the [...]

Fu, S., He, G., Wang, Q., Huo, B. & Ding, Y. 2023. Power use, cooperative behaviour and alliance performance: evidence from contract farming supply chains in China. Industrial Management & Data Systems, 123(3): 794–820.

This study aims to explore the relationship among five types of power (expert, referent, legitimate, reward [...]

Wu, Y., Guo, W., Cai, Z., Tong, Y. & Chen, J. 2023. Research on contract coordination mechanism of contract farming considering the green innovation level. Sustainability, 15(4): 3314.

Green agriculture is an important issue in agricultural development. The farming cooperative frequently chooses to improve its green innovation level of agricultural products [...]

Tabe-Ojong, M. P. Jr., & Abay, K. A. 2023. Smallholder farmers’ participation in profitable value chains and contract farming: Evidence from irrigated agriculture in Egypt. MENA RP Working Paper 42.

The participation of smallholder farmers in high-value and profitable value chains as well as contract farming remains low in [...]

Martiniello, G. 2023. Sugar agro-extractivism: Land enclosures, contract farming and the sugar frontier in Africa. In: Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing. First edition, pp. 113–127. London, Routledge.

Large-scale land acquisitions that promoters have considered ‘development opportunities’ and critics labelled as ‘land grabs’ escalated in the last couple of [...]

Haryono, A., Maarif, M.S., Suroso, A.I. & Jahroh, S. 2023. The Design of a Contract Farming Model for Coffee Tree Replanting. Economies, 11(7): 185.

Coffee tree replanting is needed in Indonesia, yet a financing scheme is not available at the moment due to its economic feasibility and farmers’ reluctance to reinvest. [...]

Mukucha, P & Chari, F. 2023. The moderating effect of farming contracts on the relationship between responsive supply chain elements and supply chain resilience. Journal of Future Sustainability, 3(1), 1-12.

Food supply chain disruptions have of recent increased in terms of severity and frequency leading to viability problems for most businesses [...]

Machio, P.M. & Meemken, E.-M. 2023. Women’s participation in contract farming. The Journal of Development Studies, 59(6): 894–910.

Smallholder farmers in lower-income countries often lack access to agricultural inputs, services, and markets. This holds especially for female farmers, with important negative implications for agricultural productivity, child welfare, and rural development. Contract [...]

Snashall, G.B. & Poulos, H.M. 2023. ‘Smallholding for whom?’: The effect of human capital appropriation on smallholder palm farmers. Agriculture and Human Values.

Wage inequality and land and labor insecurity are critical barriers to sustainable palm oil production among those employed in Indonesia’s small-farm sector. Palm oil contract farming, a pre-harvest [...]

Ingram, M. October, 2022. Agricultural value chains, contract farming, and rural development. Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.

From 2017 to 2019, a pilot program on contract farming expansion was carried out in Mozambique. Through this program, a firm in central Mozambique that contracted with farmers to purchase maize expanded their [...]