Centro de Recursos sobre la Agricultura de Contrato

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This article examines a self-enforcing contract between a risk-neutral principal and a risk-averse agent who is able to hold up values ex post. It shows that risk aversion and variance can only partly explain the contract's incentive intensity. Ex post bargaining power and outside options will also determine contract choice. [...]
Organisation: University of Stavanger, Norway
Fecha de publication: 2006
A collaborative research project financed by ACIAR in East Java (Indonesia) shows the success of contract farming between PT Pioneer (an MNC) and smallholder farmers in seed corn production. The MNC was able to reduce transaction costs while the smallholders had access to an established international seed corn market. In [...]
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Fecha de publication: 2006
Contract law issues on European or international level have been studied for several decades in academic circles. Contract law issues and other questions affecting European private law have already been regulated in the past on EC level, especially in the framework of several consumer protection directives. The European Contract Law [...]
Organisation: University of Vienna - Faculty of Law
Fecha de publication: 2006
This article provides an economic explanation regarding why the share of U.S. pork raised on company-owned farms with hired management (integration) is increasing relative to production through independently owned-and-operated contract growers (contracting). The article develops a property rights model that shows how in certain circumstances production contracts do not transfer [...]
Organisation: Oregan State University
Fecha de publication: 2006
Contract production, which has many advantages, is one of the methods of vertical coordination in the market to solve marketing problem and provide necessary inputs for small scale producers in agricultural sector. But it has some problem because of features of producers like dependency to authority and primary groups and [...]
Organisation: Cukurova University, Turkey
Fecha de publication: 2006
The study has investigated 30 cases of contract farming linking small-scale farmers to processors in Viet Nam. (available in English and Vietnamese from the following weblink)
Organisation: Making Markets Work Better for the Poor Project
Fecha de publication: 2005
In order to provide the Government of Cambodia with the basis for determining its strategic approach to land and agricultural development, this study reviews the experience in Cambodia in terms of the productivity of smallholder versus large scale production. The results of this study have shown that in fact trade-offs [...]
Organisation: Agrifood Consulting International
Fecha de publication: 2005
This paper addresses some merits and demerits of contract farming by exploring the basic economic rationale of contract farming and the existing practices and their implications. The nature and the practice of the ‘contract’ are central to the issue of contract farming. The paper argues that it is of utmost importance [...]
Organisation: Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Fecha de publication: 2005

This assignment is designed to assist producer groups to create growing agreements with processors, retailers, and wholesalers. Farmers groups currently engage in ad hoc forward purchase contracts with processors, retailers, and wholesalers. The purpose of this assignment is to bring together these groups and assist formalizing their growing arrangements. Banks [...]

Organisation: Chemonics International
Fecha de publication: 2005
Contract farming in China has grown rapidly over the past 10 years. This paper examines the evolution of Contract farming, and explores the incentives to engage in contract farming, preferred contract forms and contract performance from the perspective of both Chinese farmers and contracting firms. Firm and household perspectives on [...]
Organisation: Department of Agricultural Economics, Zhejiang University, China
Fecha de publication: 2005