Centro de Recursos sobre la Agricultura de Contrato

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Chapter eleven of the book Knowledge Driven Development: Private Extension and Global Lessons (Academic Press), which uses actual cases written specifically to study the role and capacity of private companies in knowledge sharing and intensification through agricultural extension. Descriptions of specific models and approaches are teased out of complex situations [...]
Organisation: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Fecha de publication: 2015
Due to changes in the global agricultural system and support from various organizations, contract farming has recently been significantly expanded in many developing countries. A considerable body of literature analyses the impact of contract farming on the welfare of smallholders, whereas its impact on efficiency and productivity is mostly overlooked. This study addresses this [...]
Organisation: University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Institute of Rural Development Planning (Tanzania), Mzumbe University (Tanzania)
Fecha de publication: 2015
Contract farming, broadly understood as agricultural production and marketing carried out under a previous agreement between producers and their buyers, supports the production of a wide range of agricultural commodities and its use is growing in many countries. Mindful of the importance of enhancing knowledge and awareness of the legal [...]
Organisation: FAO, UNIDROIT & IFAD
Fecha de publication: 2015
[World Bank Group. 2014. An Analytical Toolkit for Support to Contract Farming. © Washington, DC. http://localhost:14773//entities/publication/d2ce26f0-7322-559a-8141-2cdfbb029dd6 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO]

Over the past century or so, a wide assortment of pre-harvest agreements, joint ventures, deals, and pledges that can be termed contract farming have been brokered between farmers and buyers. [...]
Organisation: World Bank
Fecha de publication: 2014
This paper discusses how to develop and manage integration, coordination and cooperation in bio-energy supply chains. Farmers decisions on whether or not to participate in a contract farming scheme have been investigated, particularly assessing the trade-offs between the contract attributes and their impact on the likelihood to participate. A stated [...]
Organisation: University of Naples Federico II
Fecha de publication: 2014
The welfare maximisation effect of contract farming is well documented (Minot, 1986) and the scheme is endorsed by the New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) as a panacea for alleviating poverty in Africa and for the development of agriculture in general. In this research assignment an evaluation of contract [...]
Organisation: Stellenbosch University
Fecha de publication: 2014
Using an original dataset from the Vietnamese catfish sector, we study the impact of vertical coordination options on household welfare and the implications of different stages of vertical coordination for the success of the whole sector. The welfare gain from contract farming and employment on processor-owned estate farms is estimated using a maximum [...]
Organisation: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Fecha de publication: 2014
The changing structure of agricultural trade in a globalizing world has become an integral part of effective rural development. In this context, contract farming has emerged as a promising rural development strategy that has gained momentum in the region, providing technical training, production inputs, and market linkages to smallholders. Contractors, [...]
Organisation: ADB
Fecha de publication: 2014
Contracts may be subject to strategic default, particularly if public enforcement institutions are weak. In a lab experiment, we study behavior in a contract farming game without third-party enforcement but with an external spot market as outside option. Two players, farmer and company, may conclude a contract but also breach it by side-selling [...]
Organisation: Georg-August-University, Germany
Fecha de publication: 2014
La agricultura por contrato se puede definir como un sistema de producción agrícola llevado a cabo según un acuerdo entre un comprador y los agricultores, mediante el cual se establecen las condiciones para la producción y la comercialización de uno o más productos agrícolas. Por lo general, el agricultor se [...]
Organisation: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Fecha de publication: 2014