[Alemu, D., Guinan, A. and Hermanson, J., 2021. Contract farming, cooperatives and challenges of side selling: malt barley value-chain development in Ethiopia. Development in Practice, 31(4), pp.496-510. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2020.1860194]

This paper presents the experience of malt barley value-chain development through cooperative-based contract farming. The descriptive and qualitative analysis used primary data collected [...]

[Ruml, A., Ragasa, C., & Qaim, M. (2020). Heterogeneous effects of marketing contracts and resource-providing contracts on household income (No. 858-2020-032).]

Two types of contract structures utilized in contract farming – marketing contracts and resource-providing contracts – are examined and compared in their application within the Ghanaian palm oil sector. The [...]

[Michelson, H. C. (2020). Innovative business models for small farmer inclusion. Background paper for The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO) 2020. Rome, FAO.]

Farmer participation in agricultural markets is of major importance for rural economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. This paper discusses market failures and constraints [...]

[Ruml, A., & Qaim, M. (2021). Smallholder farmers’ dissatisfaction with contract schemes in spite of economic benefits: Issues of mistrust and lack of transparency. The Journal of Development Studies, 57(7), 1106-1119.]

In this article, data collected from smallholder farmers’ participation in contract farming programs in Ghana demonstrates that resource-providing contracts including [...]

[Magrini, M. B., Bettoni, L., Cholez, C., Krajeski, D., Valérie, M. D., Lecomte, V., ... & Muriel, G. (2021). Structuration des filières et contractualisation: modalités et enjeux. Un guide réflexif pour accompagner le développement des légumineuses à graines en région Occitanie.]

Le développement des légumineuses à graines soulève de nombreux [...]

[FAO. 2020. The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020. Agricultural markets and sustainable development: Global value chains, smallholder farmers and digital innovations. Rome, FAO.]

In the latest State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO 2020) flagship publication by FAO, contract farming is presented as an approach to integrating farmers into modern and [...]

[Mishra, A.K., Kumar, A., & Joshi, P.K. (Eds.). (2020). Transforming Agriculture in South Asia: The Role of Value Chains and Contract Farming (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003024996]

The book first addresses the effects of contract farming (vertical coordination) on productivity, food security indicators (yield, consumption expenditures, prices), employment and input usage. Then [...]

[Cramb, R. (2020). White gold: The commercialisation of rice farming in the lower Mekong Basin (p. 456). Springer Nature.]

In this publication, Rob Cramb and colleagues explore various agricultural, economic, and policy aspects involved in rice production in the Lower Mekong Basin of Southeast Asia. They specifically discuss the application of [...]

With globalisation and transformations of our agrifood systems, contract farming (CF) agreements between producers and buyers have gained prominence. But what is CF, and why is there growing interest in it? What is needed for it to be efficient, inclusive and responsible? What are the advantages and disadvantages for both [...]

The focus of the study was to investigate the effect of contract farming on peasant livelihoods in Manhica district, Mozambique. A mixture of approaches which combine qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the study. The results show that small scale farmers have no control over cane prices and there [...]