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In a laboratory experiment, we study behaviour in a contract farming game without
third-party enforcement but with an external spot market as outside option. We examine
if and how relational contracts and personal communication support private-order
enforcement. We find mixed evidence for our private ordering hypothesis. While
relational contracting significantly reduces contract breach in [...]
Organisation: Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
Fecha de publication: 2016
This report looks into the many challenges faced by stakeholders in agricultural value chains in the
People’s Republic of China (PRC) and how these stakeholders are meeting
these challenges head-on through the establishment of farmerenterprise
partnerships. The document presents case studies and takes an indepth
look into several enterprises in the PRC, highlighting experiences [...]
Organisation: Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Fecha de publication: 2015
In developing countries, smallholder farmers face many constraints including lack of information, access to credit and to markets. To overcome these constraints, resource-poor farmers can engage in contract farming. However, contracts farming need to meet farmers’ demand in order to be sustainable. This study aimed to analyze the preferences of [...]
Organisation: University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Fecha de publication: 2015
Out-grower schemes (often referred to as contract farming in academic and other literature)
are an important component of many current public-private partnerships (PPPs) in developing
countries, including the G8’s New Alliance. Such schemes often appeal to farmers because the
company often provides inputs and production services. In addition, farming incomes can rise
and such [...]
Organisation: ActionAid
Fecha de publication: 2015
Contract farming (CF) is increasingly seen as an effective mechanism to maximise the
inclusion of and benefits for small-scale farmers, while giving some control over production
to agribusinesses without requiring land ownership. In Cambodia, CF takes many forms
and involves food and industrial crops, yet the different CF models and contract types have
not [...]
Organisation: Cambodia Development Resource Institute
Fecha de publication: 2015
The purpose of Volume II of GIZ’s Contract
Farming Handbook is to provide practitioners
(farmers and farmer groups’ representatives,
buyers and facilitators) with tools and case studies
that assist in taking informed decisions on starting
up, implementing and scaling up contract
farming schemes. This also means to support
decision-making on desisting from venturing into
heavy investments if a [...]
Organisation: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Fecha de publication: 2015
The participation of women in agricultural production is essential to food security and rural
development. However, female farmers face many constraints when linking to modernizing,
closely coordinated agrifood value chains.
Indeed, women are often excluded from market
access opportunities offered by agribusinesses that contract farmers for the production and
delivery of agricultural products, because [...]
Organisation: University of Rome Tor Vergata, School of Economics
Fecha de publication: 2015
As many developing countries, Philippines is making vigorous efforts to attract and facilitate private investment in agriculture with the expectation that such investment will contribute to production growth, poverty reduction and food security. However, recent research has highlighted that investments do not necessarily produce positive results. Several studies have shown [...]
Organisation: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Fecha de publication: 2015
L’agriculture contractuelle, qui désigne généralement la production et la commercialisation de produits agricoles en vertu d’un accord conclu au préalable entre producteurs et acheteurs, est de plus en plus pratiquée dans de nombreux pays pour des denrées agricoles très variées. Conscients de l’importance de mieux faire connaître le régime juridique [...]
Organisation:
Fecha de publication: 2015
We investigate the unique contractual arrangement between a large Ethiopian sugar factory and its adjacent outgrower associations. The only significant difference between the sugarcane production on the factory-operated sugarcane plantation and on the outgrower-operated plots is the remuneration system and thus, the incentives to the workers. We compare the productivity [...]
Organisation: University of Copenhagen
Fecha de publication: 2015

