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...

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...

In the latest State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO 2020) flagship publication by FAO, contract farming is presented as one of the business models for sustainable growth providing an approach for smallholder farmers...

The latest State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO 2020) flagship publication by FAO, dedicated to agricultural markets and sustainable development, global value chains, smallhoder farmers and digital innovation featured contract...

A Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) project on contract farming in Belize has just started.   Agriculture is the bedrock of the Belizean economy, contributing significantly to its Gross Domestic Product (GDP),...

Rural 21 is an international journal dedicated to topics surrounding rural development, and having the ambition is to further strategies and policies that strengthen rural areas for developing and newly...

In developing countries contract farming faces numerous challenges that many times lead to its failure. Innovations that help overcome the difficulties of contracting with a large pool of small farmers...

The workshop brought together 25 representatives of producer organizations from Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Participants highlighted the need for capacity development at country level on contract formation...

 Governments, donors and responsible agricultural investors are increasingly looking to contract farming as a more inclusive business model for agricultural investment, and a tool with which to redress economic power...

Agriculture and rural development are key to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the majority of the world's poor and food insecure live in rural areas of...

A simple and pratical legal tool to support the implementation of global principles and guidelines that make responsible investment a reality. It is designed in such a way that addresses...

Le présent étude analyse  la mise en place de systèmes d’agriculture sous-contrat (ASC) dans la filière thé. L’objectif est d’évaluer la capacité de l’ASC à lever une partie des contraintes qui...

This report presents the lessons learned from a project in four East African countries – Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda – focusing on youth and their agribusinesses. In Burundi and...

On 22nd May 2018 the Government of Thailand released a new law to support contract farming in the country. The "Contract Farming Promotion and Development Act" will come into force...

Mission to Sri Lanka in November 2017, under the project GCP/SRL/062/EC “European Union – Support to District Development Programme”: Delivering a training workshop on legal and operational aspects of contract...

A training event was held in Tirana, Albania, from 10th to 13th of October 2017 to promote and disseminate the use of Contract Farming in selected value chains in Albania....

An intensive course on contract farming was held in Guatemala from the 18th to 21st of April 2017.

The project on South-South Cooperation Exchange between Lao PDR and Brazil was facilitated by FAO and the University of Viçosa (Brazil) in order to improve contract farming operations. Project objectives...

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...