FAO’s contract farming team comprises core members from the Agrifood Economics Division (ESA) that focuses on agribusiness and economic aspects of contract farming and the Development Law Service (LEGN) on legal and regulatory aspects. Contract farming work at FAO has been a multidisciplinary and [...]

FAO’s Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) project “Building capacities and facilitating enabling environment for contract farming in Lesotho” (TCP/LES/3801) has gained attention from local and regional media and received positive exposure to the public.

The project aims to increase knowledge and build capacities of relevant stakeholders in public and private sectors, and [...]

Discussions have been held and preparations been made to introduce a contract farming component to the project “Catalyzing the efficiency and sustainability of Azerbaijan’s Hazelnut Sector” (UTF/AZE/016/AZE). The project has been developed and jointly implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (FAO-Azerbaijan) and the [...]

Contract farming (CF) can be an effective model to coordinate linkages between farmers and buyers, improve smallholders' access to market, productive resources, technologies and capacity development, and enhance their competitiveness and livelihood. In close collaboration between FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition: Department of Marketing in [...]

Lesotho is taking steps towards establishing an enabling regulatory framework for contract farming. As a part of an FAO’s Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) project "Building capacities and facilitating enabling environment for contract farming in Lesotho (TCP/LES/3801)", a National Contract Farming Working Group – with representation from both public and private [...]

Several validation workshops were held under FAO's Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) project "Building Capacities and Facilitating Enabling Environment for Contract Farming in Lesotho (TCP/LES/3801)," implemented at the request of the Government of Lesotho. The project aims to increase knowledge and build capacities of relevant stakeholders in public [...]

FAO ESA and LEGN, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise (MoAFSE) and together with the FAO team in Belize, and supporting office in Jamaica, successfulty implemented a Technical Cooperation Project TCP/BZE/3702/C2: “Establishment of a Legislative and Regulatory Framework to Enhance the Contract Farming in [...]